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[1] AD and AES, DLC-RTL. This document is in Lincoln's autograph on Executive Mansion stationery, signed by Wolford. Colonel Frank L. Wolford, First Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry had made a speech at Lexington, Kentucky, on March 10, 1864, in which he protested against the policy of employing Negroes as soldiers, and urged resistance to the law by means of law suits to test its constitutionality. Arrested and imprisoned at Knoxville, Tennessee, he was tried and convicted on charges of disloyalty and conduct unbecoming an officer. Following his dismissal from the service he became a candidate for presidential elector on the Conservative Union Ticket. See further Lincoln's communications to Speed and to Wolford, July 17, infra.