To Joseph Hooker1Jump to section
Major General Hooker: Washington, June 2, 1863.
It is said that Philip Margraff, in your army, is under sentence to be shot on Friday, the 5th instant, as a deserter. If this be so, please send me up the record of his case at once. A. LINCOLN.
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[1] Thirty-eighth Congress, Second Session, Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War (1865), I, 244. No reply from Hooker has been located. See Lincoln to Hooker, June 4, infra.