Alexander T. Stewart to Lincoln, October 31, 1862

Broadway & Chambers

October 31. 1862

My dear Sir

I wrote you on the 25th Sept. with respect to the promotion of Capt Thaddeus P. Mott — son of the most eminent of our Surgeons Dr. Valentine Mott — requesting a favorable consideration of the application for Captn Mott's promotion, and fear my letter may not have reached you

Captn Mott was highly distinguished in the battles of the Peninsula and particularly on the last of the “seven days battles” on which occasion the battery temporarily under his command, rendered the most important service at the moment of the well known desperate charge of the enemy under Magruder, in which he was decisively repulsed

It may be recollected that at Harrison's Landing Captn Mott was presented by Majr Genl McClellan and so highly commended that he was asked by your Excellency, — such is the representation to me — “what he desired, and he omitted to express his wishes which earnestly pointed to promotion.

All that I can ask as a personal favor, is, that the application may be examined, and if it shall appear to be compatible with the public interests, that he may be given the command of a battery, for which on a sudden emergency he displayed such fitness.

I have the honor to be

Yours most sincerely

and truly

Alexr T Stewart

SOURCE: Lincoln, Abraham. Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 2. General Correspondence. 1858 to 1864: Alexander T. Stewart to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, October 31, Recommendation. October 31, 1862. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mal4238000/>.