Major-general Meade, Army of Potomac: 

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.

Telegram to E. P. Evans. 
Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., November 23, 1863.

E. P. Evans, West Union, Adams County, Ohio: 

Yours to Governor Chase in behalf of John A Welch is before me.  Can there be a worse case than to desert and with letters persuading others to desert?  I cannot interpose without a better showing than you make.  When did he desert? when did he write the letters?

A. Lincoln.

TO SECRETARY SEWARD.

Executive Mansion,
Washington, D. C., November 23, 1863.

My dear sir:—­Two despatches since I saw you; one not quite so late on firing as we had before, but giving the points that Burnside thinks he can hold the place, that he is not closely invested, and that he forages across the river.  The other brings the firing up to 11 A.M. yesterday, being twenty-three hours later than we had before.

Yours truly,

A. Lincoln.

Telegram to general grant. 
Washington, November 25, 1863. 8.40 A.M.

Major-general U.S.  Grant: 

Your despatches as to fighting on Monday and Tuesday are here.  Well done!  Many thanks to all.  Remember Burnside.

A. Lincoln.

TO C. P. KIRKLAND.

Executive Mansion,
Washington, December 7, 1863.

Charles P. Kirkland, Esq., New York: 

I have just received and have read your published letter to the Hon.  Benjamin R. Curtis.  Under the circumstances I may not be the most competent judge, but it appears to me to be a paper of great ability, and for the country’s sake more than for my own I thank you for it.

Yours very truly,

A. Lincoln.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF UNION SUCCESS IN EAST TENNESSEE.

Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C.,
December 7, 1863.

Reliable information being received that the insurgent force is retreating from East Tennessee, under circumstances rendering it probable that the Union forces cannot hereafter be dislodged from that important position; and esteeming this to be of high national consequence, I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of worship, and render special homage and gratitude to Almighty God for this great advancement of the national cause.