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[1] ALS, IHi. See Lincoln to Meade, October 15, supra. Meade replied at 9:40 P.M., ``Your telegram is received. The sentence to be shot to death in the cases of private James Haley 116 Penna & Private H. C. Beardsly 5th Michigan was ordered to be carried into execution on the sixteenth (16) inst & they were, accordingly shot on that day. The records of courts in these cases together with the order of promulgation was forwarded to the Judge Advocate General on the 23d. The record of the court in the case of private Thomas Sands 118th Penna was forwarded for your orders on the thirteenth (13) that in the cases of Sergeant H H Williams 11th. Penna & private Mathias Brown alias Albert Brown 90th Penna was forwarded for your orders on the twenty fifth (25). No communication was received from you in relation to Haley and Beardsley. Nothing is known here in relation to Geo. T. Perkins & no order has been issued from these Head Quarters to carry out the sentence of a court in his case.'' (DLC-RTL).
Of the men named, rosters show Thomas Sands wounded at Dabney's Mills, Virginia, on February 6, 1865, but ``not accounted for'' thereafter, and James Haley, executed on October 16, 1863; Henry H. Williams' and Albert (Mathias) Brown's sentences were commuted to imprisonment in Dry Tortugas by AGO, Special Orders No. 166, May 3, 1864. Henry C. Beardsley and George T. Perkins do not appear in the records, but William Pitt Fessenden wrote Lincoln on October 26, enclosing appeals in Perkins' behalf (DLC-RTL).