Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To George G. Meade1Jump to section

Major General Meade Washington, D.C.,
Army of Potomac Oct. 8. 1863

I am appealed to in behalf of August Blittersdorf, at Mitchells Station, Va. to be shot to-morrow, as a deserter. I am unwilling for any boy under eighteen to be shot; and his father affirms that he is yet under sixteen.

Please answer. His Regt. or Co. not given me.

A. LINCOLN

Annotation

[1] ALS, IHi. No reply from Meade or other communications about Blittersdorf have been found, and there seems to be no record of the name in the General Orders, Army of the Potomac, but see Lincoln to Meade, October 15, infra.

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