the place of trial, and wherein the convict is now in custody, appoint a time and place and carry such sentence into execution. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL MEADE. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL MEADE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: The boy telegraphs from Mitchell's Station, Va. The father thinks he is in the One hundred and nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers. The father signs the name "Blittersdorf." I can tell no more. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL MEADE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: The father and mother of John Murphy, of the One hundred and nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, have filed their own affidavits that he was born June 22, 1846, and also the affidavits of three other persons who all swear that they remembered the circumstances of his birth and that it was in the year 1846, though they do not remember the particular day. I therefore, on account of his tender age, have concluded to pardon him, and to leave it to yourself whether to discharge him or continue him in the service. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO W. S. ROSECRANS. [Cipher.] WAR DEPARTMENT, October 12, 1863. 8.35 A.M. MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Chattanooga, Tenn.: As I understand, Burnside is menaced from the west, and so cannot go to you without surrendering East Tennessee. I now think the enemy will not attack Chattanooga, and I think you will have to look out for his making a concentrated drive at Burnside. You and Burnside now have him by the throat, and he must break your hold or perish. I therefore think you better try to hold the road up to Kingston, leaving Burnside to what is above there. Sherman is coming to you, though gaps in the telegraph prevent our knowing how far he is advanced. He and Hooker will so support you on the west and northwest as to enable you to look east and northeast. This is not an order. General Halleck will give his views. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. G. MEADE. WASHINGTON, October 12, 1863. 9 A.M. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE: What news this morning? A despatch from Rosecrans, leaving him at 7.30 P.M. yesterday, says: "Rebel rumors that head of Ewell's column reached Dalton yesterday." I send this for what it is worth. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO WAYNE MCVEIGH. MCVEIGH, Philadelphia: EXECUTIVE Mansion, WASHINGTON, The enemy some days ago made a movement, apparently to turn General Meade's right. This led to a manoeuvring of the two armies and to pretty heavy skirmishing on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. We have frequent despatches from General Meade and up to 10 o'clock last night nothing had happened giving either side any marked advantage. Our army reported to be in excellent condition. The telegraph is open to General Meade's camp this morning, but we have not troubled him for a despatch. TO THURLOW WEED. A. LINCOLN. HON. THURLow Weed. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, MY DEAR SIR:-I have been brought to fear recently that somehow, by commission or omission, I have caused you some degree of pain. I have never entertained an unkind feeling or a disparaging thought toward you; and if I have said or done anything which has been construed into such unkindness or disparagement, it has been misconstrued. I am sure if we could meet we would not part with any unpleasant impression on either side. Yours as ever, A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO J. W. GRIMES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHIngton City, I suppose HON. JAMES W. GRIMES, Burlington, Iowa: Thanks for your Iowa election news. you know that Pennsylvania and Ohio are all right. Governor Morton telegraphs that county elections in Indiana have gone largely in the same direction. A. LINCOLN. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Allow Mrs. Robert S. Todd, widow, to go south and bring her daughter, Mrs. General B. Hardin Helm, with her children, north to Kentucky. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL FOSTER. War Department, Washington, D. C., October 15, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL FOSTER, Fort Monroe, Va.: Postpone the execution of Dr. Wright to Friday the 23d instant (October). This is intended for his preparation and is final. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL MEADE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: On the 4th instant you telegraphed me that Private Daniel Hanson, of Ninety-seventh New York Volunteers, had not yet been tried. When he shall be, please notify me of the result, with a brief statement of his case, if he be convicted. Gustave Blittersdorf, who you say is enlisted in the One hundred and nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers as William Fox, is proven to me to be only fifteen years old last January. I pardon him, and you will discharge him or put him in the ranks at your discretion. Mathias Brown, of Nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, is proven to me to be eighteen last May, and his friends say he is convicted on an enlistment and for a desertion both before that time. If this last be true he is pardoned, to be kept or discharged as you please. If not true suspend his execution and report the facts of his VOL. VL-29. |