To George G. Meade1Jump to section
Army of Potomac Oct. 8 1863
I am appealed to in behalf of John Murphy, to be shot tomorrow. His Mother says he is but seventeen. Please answer.
A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS, Charles Hamilton, 1970. No reply from Meade has been located. Army of the Potomac, General Orders No. 93, October 2, 1863, announced sentence of John Murphy, unassigned recruit, One Hundred Nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, to be shot October 9 for desertion. See Lincoln to Meade, October 12, infra.