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My dear Sir This morning I was presented an order of yours dismissing from the service, subject to my approval, a Captain
Schaadt, of one of the Pennsylvania regiments. Disloyalty, without any statement of the evidence supposed to have proved it, is assigned as the cause of the dismissal; and he represents at home, as I am told, that the sole evidence was his refusal to sanction a resolution (indorsing the emancipation proclamation I believe); and our friends assure me that this statement is doing the Union cause great harm in his neighborhood and county, especially as he is a man of character, did good service in raising troops for us last fall, and still declares for the Union & his wish to fight for it. On this state of case I wrote a special indorsement on the order, which I suppose he will present to you; and I write this merely to assure you that no censure is intended upon you; but that it is hoped that you will inquire into the case more minutely, and that if there be no evidence, but his refusal to sanction the resolution, you will restore him. Yours as ever A. LINCOLN
[1] ADfS, DLC-RTL; LS, IHi. David Schaadt was captain of Company D, One Hundred Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania, a regiment of nine-months drafted militia, mustered in on November 8, 1862, and mustered out on August 18, 1863. See Lincoln's endorsement, infra.