Memorandum:
Appointment of Edward L. Wooden1Jump to section
West-Point
Edward L. Wooden, of Conn---18 in Augt. 1863, is 5. feet 10. and has served 9 months in the War---upon the Mississippi.
Jan. 27. 1864 A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] AES, DNA WR RG 94, U.S. Military Academy, 1864, No. 196. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter of Edward L. Wooden to Stanton, January 22, 1864, applying for appointment to West Point and setting forth that he had served from September 2, 1862, to August 30, 1863, in the Twenty-third Connecticut Volunteers. No appointment is of record.