The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln-VOL. VI (Chap. 2.285) lyrics
by Abraham Lincoln
Telegram To General Meade.
War Department, Washington, D. C., October 8, 1863.
MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac:
I am appealed to in behalf of August Blittersdorf, at Mitchell's Station, Va., to be shot to-morrow as a deserter. I am unwilling for any boy under eighteen to be shot, and his father affirms that he is yet under sixteen. Please answer. His regiment or company not given me.
A. LINCOLN.