Annotation
[1] AES, DLC-RTL. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a telegram signed ``B. Pickett,'' Rock Island, Illinois, April 3, 1863, ``Am removed from agency Island Rock Island without chance to be heard in defense desire investigation; will send evidence by mail'' (DLC-RTL). A clerk endorsed in reply on April 5, ``This Dept. has no information . . . & no officer there.'' The telegram was in error as to the name. Lincoln's old friend Thomas J. Pickett wrote Montgomery C. Meigs on April 18, that he had been removed ``from the agency of the Q.M. Department (on the Island of Rock Island) on newspaper charges, emanating