Judicial Electors Result From Illinois Election
The June 3 general result shows Fountain elected Clerk of the Supreme Court in the First Grand Division, Turney reelected in the Second, and Major W. M. Taylor elected in the Third. Judge Walker appears reelected in the Second Grand Division, with Republicans winning several circuit judgeships in the Sixth Sixteenth Twenty-eighth and Twenty-fifth Circuits through Pleasants Puterbaugh Wilcox and Canby.
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Fountain
Supreme Court
Ilinois
Turney
Alinois
W. M.taylor
Illinois
Walker
George W. Pleasants
Major S. D. Puterbaugh
Mr. Wilcox
K. S. Canby
Cabinet Meeting on Attorney General Opinion on Reconstruction Acts
A June 1867 Cabinet session reviewed the Attorney General opinions on Reconstruction laws. The President and cabinet discussed guidance to military commanders and registration efforts, with most sections approved unanimously except where the Secretary of War dissented on specific paragraphs. The June 20 meeting reaffirmed cabinet unity on most points, noting doubts among some commanders and proposing formal communications.
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Treasury
War
Navy
Interior
Secretary of War
the Treasury
of War
Binet
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Proclamation on ratification of treaty and Longstreet pardon
The President issued a proclamation announcing ratification of the Russian American treaty as final exchange of ratifications today between Secretary Seward and Baron Stoeckle. A pardon for Gen. Longstreet was granted today upon written and personal applications from Gen. Grant, senior Army officers, and several Senators and Representatives.
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Seward
Baron Stoeckle
Longstreet
Gen. Grant
Surratt Trial Reports Booth Link. Witness Describes June 1865 Night
Washington reports from the Surratt trial detail witness accounts of the April 1865 assassination period. Testimony includes identification of Surratt at the Kirkwood House and Willard's Hotel, descriptions of Booth and conspirators, and notes on Montreal and Burlington movements. Court debated witness recall and cross examination while new testimonies tied Surratt to key locations and events.
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Bradley
Reed
Susan Allen Jackson
Surratt
Washington
James Singston
St. Lawrence
Montreal
John Harrison
New York
Pierpont
Harrison
Wasilington
Hobart
Blinn
Dyer
Hobarts
Essex Junction
Burlington
St Albans
Vermont
Canada
Suratt
United States
J. H. Surratt
Merrick
Alderman Dorrity
Philadelphia
First National Bank of New York
Edward I. Smith
Richmond
James M. Wright
Bureau of Military Justice
Jacob Thompson
Bank of Montreal
Booth
Robert Campbell
Ontario Bank of Montreal
Wright
A. Cleaver
Lincoln
John Lee
Mississippi
Baker's Force
Pennsylvania Avenue
Williard’s
Fisher
Brooks
Stabler
Atzerodt
Harold
Sur
James W. Humphrey
John Fletcher
H. Fitzpatrick
Willard’s
Wilkes Booth
Iman
Metropolitan Hall
Jie
Sturatt
Witnesses Describe Night of Assassination
Ex-Sergeant Coolper testified he rode with Sergeant Dyer the night of the assassination and heard a man nearby call out ten minutes to ten. He corroborated Dyer's account of returning to Camp Barry at H Street No. 641 when a middle aged woman raised a window and asked what happened downtown. The court then recessed.
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Washington
Surratt
Fisher
Isaac
Joseph M. Dryer
Lincoln
Booth
Arsenal
Camp Barry
Mgr
Merrick
Mr. Merrick
Carrington
Military Commission
D.C. Reed
Pennsylvania Avenue
Uhaye
Ife
Avery
Bradley
Reed
Ness
Charlotte Hall
Coolper
Dyer
H. Street
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Telegraph
Waslington
Reid
Carroll Hobart
Vermont Central Railroad
St. Albans
Franklin
Canada Line
Charles Blum
Wilden
S. Grillo
Navy Yard
Ford
J. W. Booth
Witness
Kirkwood House
Tenth Street
Tla
Gen. Lee
Grover’s
Jame
Harald
Clorid
John L. Tipper
Eddy Martin
Andrew Atzerodt
John H. Surratt
Port Tobacco
Howard
Ninth Street
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