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I understand you are troubled with some report that the 3rd Corps has sustained a disaster, or repulse. I can only say that I have watched closely, and believe I have seen all the despatches at the Military Telegraph Office up to a half hour ago, one from Ingalls, with the Army, reaching here since this morning, and I have
heard of no such disaster or repulse. I add that I do not believe there has been any such. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN.
Maj. Gen. Sickles.
[1] Thomas F. Madigan, A Catalogue of Lincolniana (1929), No. 45. No correspondence connected with this communication has been found. General Sickles was in command of the Third Corps at Gettysburg, where he was severely wounded and underwent amputation of a leg.