Annotation
[1] AES, ICHi. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter from Augustin Chester, Washington, June 15, 1863, transmitting ``letters of Hon I. N. Arnold in behalf of Capt. Riley. I ask that you will enclose to me the decision in his case & that of Lieut Pike. . . .'' The officers referred to were probably Captain Lawrence Riley and First Lieutenant Edgar M. Pike of the One Hundred Twenty-seventh Illinois, dismissed on March 13, 1863, dismissal later modified to honorable discharge.