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Telegram To General Meade, 11-20-1863 |
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_ TELEGRAM TO GENERAL MEADE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., November 20, 1863.
If there is a man by the name of King under sentence to be shot, please suspend execution till further order, and send record. A. LINCOLN.
An intelligent woman in deep distress, called this morning, saying her husband, a lieutenant in the Army of Potomac, was to be shot next Monday for desertion, and putting a letter in my hand, upon which I relied for particulars, she left without mentioning a name or other particular by which to identify the case. On opening the letter I found it equally vague, having nothing to identify by, except her own signature, which seems to be "Mrs. Anna S. King." I could not again find her. If you have a case which you shall think is probably the one intended, please apply my dispatch of this morning to it. A. LINCOLN. |
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