Annotation
[1] AES, NHi. Lincoln's endorsement is written on the following letter from Assistant Adjutant General Thomas M. Vincent to John M. Wetherill, late major of the Eighty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, May 13, 1863:
``Your application of date the 5th instant, in reference to your commission as Lieutenant Colonel of the 82d. Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, has been submitted to the Secretary of War and he directs me to inform you that you cannot be authorized to be mustered into that regiment.
``Your attention is invited to the telegram from this office of March 16. 1863, to the Governor of Pennsylvania, which removed the disability in your case, so far as any other regiment is concerned.''
Wetherill was appointed lieutenant colonel of the Eighty-second Pennsylvania on June 20, 1863.