To John Sedgwick1Jump to section
Major-General Sedgwick: January 26, 1864.
Your letter of January 22, received. Suspend execution of sentence in all the capital cases mentioned in General Orders No. 1 and 2, where it has not already been done. I recapitulate the whole list of capital cases mentioned in said orders including those cases in which execution has been heretofore, as well as those on which it is now suspended.
Private John Wilson, Company D, Seventy-first Pennsylvania; Private James Lane, Company B, Seventy-first New York; Private Joseph W. Clifton, Company F, Sixth New Jersey; Private Ira Smith, Company I, Eleventh New Jersey; Private Allen G. Maxson, Company D, First Michigan; Private John Keatly, Company I, Second Delaware; Private Daniel P. Byrnes, Company A, Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania; Private Samuel Tyler, Company G, Third New Jersey; Private Robert Gill, Company D, Sixth New York Cavalry.
Forward the records in these cases for examination.
A. LINCOLN.
Major Eckert:
Please send above dispatch. JNO. G. NICOLAY.
Annotation
[1] Tarbell (Appendix), pp. 412-13. General Sedgwick wrote on January 22: ``Enclosed I have the honor to transmit copies of General Court Martial Orders Nos. 1 & 2 current series from these Head Quarters.
``The execution of the sentence in all the capital cases mentioned in General Orders No. 1, except that of Private Ira Smith, 11th New Jersey, has been suspended by your order and the records in the cases forwarded for your action.
``The orders will be carried out in the cases of Private Smith and those men mentioned in General Orders No 2 unless you interpose.'' (DLC-RTL).