Document signed Missouri governor Thomas C. Fletcher, releasing Eads from further liability to prosecution on an indictment now pending against him in the St. Louis Criminal Court on a charge of an assault with intent to kill William Renshaw, Jr., 1865 Jan 6

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5

Staff Only

Executive Order of Governor Thomas C. Fletcher, releasing James B. Eads from prosecution, January 6, 1865

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates in the Tunnel Railroad of St. Louis and the St. Louis Bridge Company; invitations to the opening of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge; promissory notes; Eads' scrapbook of newspaper clippings (1881) relating to his plan to build a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; and papers relating to the genealogy of the McHenry family.