Regarding the Case of David Schaadt1Jump to section
Such facts are brought to my notice as induce me to withhold,2Jump to section my approval of the dismissal of Capt. Schaadt, named within. He is satisfactorily proved to me to be of good character for candor and manliness, and generally; and that he was most active and efficient, in Pennsylvania last autumn, in raising troops for the Union. All this should not retain him in the service, if, since then, he has given himself, in any way, to the injury of the service. How this is I must understand better than I now do, before I can approve his dismissal. What has he done? What has he said? If, as is claimed for him, he is guilty of nothing, but the withho[l]ding his vote or sanction, from a certain resolution or resolutions, I think his dismissal is wrong, even though I might think the resolution itself right, and very proper to be adopted by such as choose. Capt. Schaadt will report himself to Gen. Hunter, and deliver him this paper, for his further action. A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ADfS, DLC-RTL. Lincoln's draft of this endorsement is on Executive Mansion stationery, on the back of which is a copy of Hunter's General Orders No.28, March 30, 1863, dismissing Captain Schaadt for disloyalty ``unanimously certified to the Major Genl. Commanding by the Colonel, Lt. Col, Major &