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The indiscriminate dismissal of all the officers of Col. Mason's regiment, who surrendered Clarks'ville Tenn. may be wrong. Will the Sec. of War please see and hear Capt. Houck?
Sep. 6. 1862. A. LINCOLN.
Annotation
[1] AES, DNA WR RG 94, Adjutant General Letters Received, P 872. Lincoln's endorsement is written on an envelope containing a letter from Samuel S. Cox to Lincoln, Columbus, Ohio, August 30, 1862, in behalf of Captain Solomon J. Houck, Seventy-first Ohio Volunteers, cashiered along with eleven fellow officers for having published a card stating that they had advised Colonel Rodney Mason to surrender Clarksville, Tennessee, on August 18, 1862. Lincoln's endorsement on Cox's letter, ``Submitted to the Sec. of War,'' is also dated September 6. Stanton referred the case to Halleck, who on September 17 endorsed as follows: ``It being shown that Capt. S.J. Houck did not advise the surrender of Clarksville & that he signed the card justifying the surrender under a misapprehension of its contents, I respectfully recommend that the order of his dismissal be revoked.'' AGO General Orders No. 133, September 18, 1862, revoked ``so much of General Orders, No. 120,'' as cashiered Houck.