To Edwin M. Stanton1Jump to section
I shall be glad for this promotion to be made, so soon as it can be consistently. A. LINCOLN
July 16, 1863.
Annotation
[1] AES, owned by Theodore S. Charrney, Chicago, Illinois. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a copy of an undated letter from Governor Joel Parker of New Jersey, recommending that Brigadier General Gershom Mott be made a major general. Mott was not promoted until a year later. See Lincoln to Stanton, August 11, 1864, infra.