Baltimore Md. July 13, 1863
His Excellency,
Abraham Lincoln
President U.S.
Dear Sir,
I appeal
to your known generous nature & high sense of
justice to pardon me for again intruding upon your
notice. I am sure if you could see the anguish
occasioned me by injustice and forced inactivity, amid
the mighty drama that is going on and from which
I have been expelled, you would not repel but hear
me. You state in your kind letter of the 29th
ult, that “Prima facia the fault is upon you”
(me). My official report which was approved by
Genl. Schenck & forwarded by him to Genl. Hallock
five days ago, will show you conclusively that
“the fault is not upon me”. That I acted strictly
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