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If this appointment can be consistently made, I shall be glad.
March 6. 1863. A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] AES, owned by Gordon A. Block, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lincoln's endorsement, as well as concurring endorsements by General William T. Sherman and Colonel Giles A. Smith of the Eighth Missouri Volunteers, is written on a letter from Colonel George B. Hoge of the One Hundred Thirteenth Illinois Volunteers, February 2, 1863, recommending Lieutenant William A. McLean, quartermaster of Hoge's regiment, for appointment as assistant quartermaster in the Regular Army. McLean was not appointed to the Regular Army, but was appointed captain and commissary of subsistence of Volunteers on May 18, 1864.