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Telegram To General Meade. War Department, Washington, D. C., October 8, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: I am appealed to in behalf of August Blittersdorf, at Mitchell's Station, Va., to be shot to-morrow as a deserter. I am unwilling for any boy under eighteen to be shot, and his father affirms that he is yet under sixteen. Please answer. His regiment or company not given me. A. LINCOLN.