Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To John A. Dix1Jump to section

Executive Mansion, Washington,
Major-General Dix, New York: February 1, 1864.

Suspend execution of death sentence of Frank W. Parker, of one of the Maine regiments, sentenced to be shot for desertion on the 5th instant, and forward record for examination. A. LINCOLN.

Major Eckert:

Please send above dispatch. JNO. G. NICOLAY,

Private Secretary.

Annotation

[1] Tarbell (Appendix), p. 414. No reply has been found. Lincoln returned the record in the case to Judge Advocate General Holt on April 16, 1864, under the order of February 26, infra (DNA WR RG 153, Judge Advocate General, NN 802).

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