Abraham Lincoln — The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln-VOL. VI Chap. 2.286

Telegram To General Meade. Executive Mansion, Washington, October 8, 1863. 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.