Annotation
[1] AES, RPB. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter from Dr. Theodore S. Bell, president of the Kentucky Branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, August 6, 1863, introducing ``the bearer of this, Dr Wm S. Chipley, of Lexington, Ky . . . one of the most perfect specimens of a pure, unadulterated, unkinky Kentucky Union man that I could send you. . . .'' The letter is endorsed also by Stanton, who referred it to Major General Ethan A. Hitchcock, commissioner for exchange of prisoners, and by Hitchcock, recommending that ``the son, C. Chipley, be discharged upon taking the oath of allegiance.'' Privately Chipley had been with John H. Morgan's raid in Ohio and was captured on July 20.