Annotation
[1] ALS, RPB. Judge Daniel Breck wrote Representative William H. Randall on February 22, 1864: ``My Daughter, Anna Maria Ramsey, the wife of Dr. F. A. Ramsey, with her six daughters, . . . is now at his residence in Knoxville, Ten. Her Husband is a Medical Director their only son an officer in the Rebel Army. She has been ordered to leave with her children & go South within the rebel lines, having failed to take the oath. . . . The order has been temporarily suspended. She was willing to take the oath with the consent of her husband, but being a loyal wife she doubted the propriety of doing so without it. To obtain his consent is impracticable, for even if willing, he could not safely give it in his present situation. I think the most desirable & natural shelter for her & her children under the circumstances is her father's roof---and indeed the safest for the Union cause, as you know her father is a Union man. . . .'' (DLC-RTL). See Lincoln to Tillson, infra.
[2] Presumably Lincoln misspelled the name here as well as in the telegram to Tillson. Judge Breck's letter clearly reads ``Ramsey.''