To Edwin M. Stanton1Jump to section
Sec. of War, please respond, & give him the ``Inquiry''
July 29. 1863. A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] AES, DNA WR RG 108, HQA, Letters Received, 703 (formerly P 115). Lincoln's endorsement is written on a telegram from General Robert H. Milroy, July 29, 1863, ``I have been here in arrest over one month Will you permit me to come to Washington[?]'' Further endorsements conclude with an unsigned order to ``Col. Townsend to issue the order for a Ct of Inquiry to meet in this city.''