To Pres Lincoln From RH Milroy 1864

              To Abraham Lincoln 

       President of the United States 


                                         Sir 

I respectfully petition & pray your 
exallency to grant pardons to the 
following named soldiers to wit. 
Lorin W. Caldwill a private of E. 
9th Ind. Vol. Inf. – George Van 
Ankin Corporal of Co. F of same 
Regt. Lewis Laddure private of 
same Co. & Regt, Wm A.A. Pratt 
Corporal of same Co. & Regt, Alfred 
Curtis, a private of the same Co. & Regt, 
Henry E. Elliott, private of the 
same Co. & Regt, & John D. Billings, 
a private of the same Co. & Regt., who 
were severely tried by a general Court 
Martial at Poes Tavern Hamilton Co. 
Tenn, in the month of Sept Last, & 
as per enclosed copy of General Orders 
No. 260 dated Head Quarters Department 
of the Cumberland Chattenooga Tenn, Oct 
          27th 1863. Approving & putting in force 
 confirming the findings of 
same court, were severely sentenced as 
(three of them to the disgraceful cruel  
penelty of wearing a bell/chain during the 
remnant of their time of enlistment) 
in that order set forth.  These 
soldiers were each tried & sentenced 
under the charge as set forth in said orders (stricken: 
upon the charge of  conduct upon a bunge 
Specification under the charges	(stricken: 
Ser forth) of being engaged in a