Annotation
[1] ALS copy, DLC-RTL. Captain Francis G. Young of the Seventy-first Pennsylvania (Colonel Edward D. Baker's ``California Regiment'') wrote Lincoln on December 7 that he could not deliver the letter which Lincoln had given him to General McClellan because ``. . . you have misunderstood my case &. . . unintentionally done me injustice. . . I did not then know that you thought me untruthful. . . . If you could know. . . all the facts of the Battle of Balls Bluff you would have no trouble in recalling all my statements to you. . . . I wish to remain in the service to the end of the war. . . .'' (Ibid.). Young was found guilty by court-martial of leaving camp without permission and dismissed from service on McClellan's order, January 2, 1862. See further Lincoln to Holt, April 11, 1864, infra.
[2] ``7th'' has been written with pencil in the blank space which Lincoln left. Lieutenant Colonel Shaler was Major Alexander Shaler of the Seventh New York, who became lieutenant colonel of the Sixty-fifth New York, dating from June 11, 1861.