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[1] ALS, IHi. Written on Executive Mansion stationery emended to ``War Department,'' this telegram is in Lincoln's autograph, signed by Stanton. See Lincoln to Stanton, infra. Brigadier General Edward H. Hobson was surprised and captured near Cynthiana, Kentucky, on June 11, by a Confederate force under John H. Morgan. Hobson accepted Morgan's suggestion that he place himself in communication with Heintzelman and propose his exchange for a Confederate officer of like rank. If the exchange was refused, Hobson was to report to Morgan as a prisoner of war. On June 13, Heintzelman telegraphed Halleck that Hobson was in Cincinnati on a conditional parole which Heintzelman considered unauthorized (OR, I, XXXIX, II, 113). Although Hobson was held under arrest for some time, no trial seems to have taken place, perhaps because of the events of June 12 (see Lincoln to Burbridge, June 14, supra.