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[1] ALS, owned by Edward C. Stone, Boston, Massachusetts. See Lincoln to Hooker, June 2, supra. On June 3, Alfred J. Bloor wrote Charles Sumner as follows: ``Understanding you are with the President and not feeling it my duty to intrude again . . . I yet feel it to be my duty to Margraf---whose son is condemned to be shot to-morrow---to ask you . . . to urge upon the President, that, however desirable it may be to put an end to the lax discipline of the army, it is not best to commence with such an example as young Margrave---a German by birth---very young---and this his first offence---committed under a misunderstanding. He thought it an oppression that, enlisted, as he supposed, for 6 or 8 months, he should be required to serve for 3 years. . . . It is notorious among New-Yorkers that a regular system of deceit was practised by recruiting officers, through their verbal statements---the public papers and show bills posted all over the City---as in this case. . . . I trouble you with this because I understand you are interceding for one of the other men condemned. . . .'' (DLC-RTL).
Privates Enos Daily, Philip Margraff, and Carlos Harrington of the One Hundred Forty-sixth New York Volunteers, were all sentenced to be shot for desertion. Hooker's telegram acknowledging receipt of Lincoln's order was received at 9:20 P.M., June 4 (DLC-RTL), but no further reference has been found.