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[1] ALS, RPB. No communication from Benjamin Gratz which accounts for Lincoln's telegram has been located, but a letter from Gratz to Montgomery Blair, April 18, 1863, asks that ``Mrs. Susan Shelby the daughter of the late Alfred Shelby and Grand-daughter of Gov. Shelby'' be given a pass to visit her wounded husband, who was Colonel J. Warren Grigsby of the Confederate Sixth Kentucky Cavalry. Although Gratz's reference to her as both ``Mrs. Shelby'' and ``Mrs. G.'' are confusing, other sources confirm that Mrs. Susan Shelby Grigsby was probably the woman meant.