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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.
Let Thomas Geary be discharged from the service on refunding any bounty received. A. LINCOLN.
April 14, 1865.
Annotation
[1] ES, OCIWHi. According to the catalog description, this order was written by John Hay and signed by Lincoln on an appeal of Geary's mother, a widow from Richmond, Maine, that Thomas was only seventeen years of age.