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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln8. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
Executive Mansion Washington
Surgeon General, Dec. 19, 1864
Please have an examination made of Corporal Charles H. Thompson of Co. B. 11th N.H. Vols. in the 9th Corps, with reference to discharge for physical disability Yours truly
A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS, owned by Sigurd S. Storm, Chicago, Illinois. Corporal Charles H. Thompson, wounded at Spotsylvania on May 16, 1864, was discharged for disability on January 19, 1865.