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Attorney General, please read & return to me as the report I get on the case he sent me Judge Colt---at the case presented to me by Judge Colt, coming with an introduction from Atty. Genl.
Aug. 20. 1863 A. LINCOLN
[1] AES, DLC-RTL. Lincoln's somewhat incoherent endorsement is written on the back of his letter to Stanton concerning Singleton Wilson, August 19, supra. Bates replied on August 26, ``I have nothing to say against the views of the case taken by Genl. Hitchcock & the Secretary of War.'' (DLC-RTL).