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[1] ALS-P, ISLA. No reply either to this communication or the telegram, supra, has been found. The sentence of First Lieutenant Edward King, Company H, Sixty-sixth New York Infantry, was commuted to imprisonment on the Dry Tortugas, May 13, 1864. Letters from Hay and Nicolay to Joseph Holt, January 8, 1864, and May 13, 1864 (DNA WR RG 153, Judge Advocate General, MM 1182) relate how Mrs. King was swindled by ``an officer who gave his name as Captain Parker Co. M. 12th Pa Cavalry, who promised for $300 to get her husband pardoned---claimed to know you, & got all the money the poor creature had.''