To Thomas Daines1Jump to section
Indianapolis, Ia. Washington, Sep. 23. 1863.
Forward your petition, and record of trial immediately. There is time for them to reach [me] before the 1st. of next month.
A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS, RPB. A petition sent by J. N. Birch set forth that Private Adam K. Daines, Company E, Sixty-third Indiana Volunteers, sentenced to be shot for desertion, was ``ignorant and illiterate'' and had been obviously influenced by others (DLC-RTL). See further, Lincoln's telegram to Willcox, September 29, infra.