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Let execution of the persons within named be suspended until Gen. Meade can act upon the cases, who will dispose of them according to his judgement & discretion. A. LINCOLN
July 24. 1863.
Annotation
[1] AES, DNA WR RG 153, Judge Advocate General, MM 545. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a group of six court-martial cases of men sentenced to be shot for desertion. See Lincoln to Meade, July 30, infra. On July 31, Lincoln approved General Meade's recommendation of mercy for the sentenced men.