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A Petition to President Abraham Lincoln by the Shakers

Shaker Museum (Mount Lebanon) · 2026

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2026-09-01
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Reproduces the South Union, Kentucky, petition of August 1863 and the Bowling Green provost marshal's report of Stanton's despatch of 30 December 1863.

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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.