Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To George G. Meade1Jump to section

Major-General Meade, Executive Mansion,
Army of Potomac: Washington, September 24, 1863.

I am appealed to in favor of a private (name not remembered) in Company D, First Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, in Sixth Corps, who is said to be under sentence to be shot to-morrow. Please give me briefly the facts of the case, including his age and your opinion on it. A. LINCOLN.

P.S. Also give me a like statement in the case of Daniel Sullivan, of Thirteenth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, First Army Corps. A. LINCOLN.

Annotation

[1] Tarbell (Appendix), p. 386. No reply has been located. Private Daniel Sullivan of Company E, Thirteenth Massachusetts, drafted and mustered August 4, 1863, was sentenced to be shot for desertion. His sentence was commuted to imprisonment for six months (AGO General Orders No. 512, 1863). See Lincoln's communications to McCallum and to Meade, September 25, infra.

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