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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Francis McDowell research materials collection, WLU Coll. 0291, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

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Processing Information

Blue sheet prepared by Betty Kondayan (December 8, 2004)

Biographical / Historical

Francis MacDonnell has been a professor of history at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista, Virginia since 1997. He was a lecturer in history at Yale University from 1993 to 1995.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains photocopies of research materials gathered by Francis MacDonnell in preparation of his article 'Reconstruction in the wake of Vietnam: the pardoning of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis,' which was published in Civil War History, Vol. XL, no.2, 1994 . Included are materials from the Gerald Ford Library, government documents, and miscellaneous sources on the pardoning of Robert E. Lee, Vietnam draft evaders, Iva 'Tokyo Rose' Toguri and others during the Ford Administration and on the pardoning of Jefferson Davis during the Carter Administration.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Carter, Jimmy
• Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
• Draft resisters
• Ford, Gerald R.
• Gerald R. Ford Library
• Lee, Robert E., General (Robert Edward)
• Pardon
• Research
• Tokyo Rose