of the United States by order of Carna the United States Navy. This corres be considered as a sequel to that menet municated to Congress relating :: ABRAFA INDORSEMENT ON LETTER FRI F JANUARY HEADQUARTERS DE TO HIS EXCELLENCY TH In reply to your Excele instant, I have to state that on gram I immediately Buell, and have since sent h could obtain of the lumbus and Camp Be force has been sen Green. They have ster and the place is st Fort Holt, and after leaving p TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR ANDREW. WASHINGTON, D. C., January 11, 1862. GOVERNOR JOHN A. ANDREW, Boston: I will be greatly obliged if you will arrange somehow with General Butler to officer his two unofficered regiments. A. LINCOLN. TO GENERAL D. C. BUELL. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, BRIGADIER-GENERAL Buell. MY DEAR SIR:-Your despatch of yesterday is received, in which you say, "I received your letter and General McClellan's, and will at once devote my efforts to your views and his." In the midst of my many cares I have not seen, nor asked to see, General McClellan's letter to you. For my own views, I have not offered and do not now offer them as orders; and while I am glad to have them respectfully considered, I would blame you to follow them contrary to your own clear judgment, unless I should put them in the form of orders. As to General McClellan's views, you understand your duty in regard to them better than I do. With this preliminary I state my general idea of this war to be, that we have the greater numbers and the enemy has the greater facility of concentrating forces upon points of collision; that we must fail unless we can find some way of making our advantage |