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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.
Officer in command at Executive Mansion,
Nashville, Tenn. Washington, Dec. 28. 1864.
Suspend execution of James R. Mallory, for six weeks from Friday the 30th. of this month, which time I have given his friends, to make proof, if they can, upon certain points. A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 272. See Lincoln to McClelland, December 24, supra. Brigadier General John F. Miller replied on the same day: ``Your dispatch granting respite to James R. Mallory for six (6) weeks from thirtieth (30) received'' (DLC-RTL).
See further Lincoln's telegram to Miller, February 4, 1865, infra.