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John A. Campbell:
On July 20, 1865, John A. Campbell, who had resigned from the Supreme Court at the start of the Civil War, wrote a letter to his former colleague Benjamin R. Curtis from a Union prison in Georgia. Imprisoned at the close of the war for his service to the Confederacy, Campbell pleaded to his friend to aid in his release. Starting his case, he accounted for his actions over the course of the war and his efforts to seek a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
Campbell's letter was recently acquired by the Supreme Court Historical Society for the Collection of the Supreme Court. |