May 22. President Grant signs into law the Amnesty Act, 1872.

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May 22, 1872. President Grant signs into law the Amnesty Act, allowing citizens of the Confederacy to return to full rights in the USA, in 1872.Cigar box label featuring Ulysses S. Grant at a masquerade ball, from about 1875.

May 22. President Grant signs into law the Amnesty Act, 1872.

May 23. Jack Taylor is born in 1873.

May 22. Al Simmons is born in 1902.