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Shakerism in America

U.S. National Park Service · 2018

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EstablishedIn August 1863 the Shaker leaders at South Union, Kentucky, petitioned President Lincoln to exempt their young men from the draft; when several brethren were drafted that December, a despatch from Secretary of War Stanton of 30 December 1863 ordered them paroled indefinitely, subject to recall.