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Major-General Meade, Army of the Potomac:
Lieut. Col. James B. Knox, Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, offers his resignation under circumstances inducing me to wish to accept it. But I prefer to know your pleasure upon the subject. Please answer. A. LINCOLN.
[1] Tarbell (Appendix), p. 404. No reply has been located. The roster of the Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers (Tenth Reserve) lists Lieutenant Colonel James B. Knox as resigned on November 23, 1863.