I shall be glad for you and each of you to aid him, and all others acting for this object, as much as possible. In all available ways give the people a show to express their wishes at these elections. Follow law, and forms of law, as far as convenient, but at all events get the expression of the largest number of the people possible. All see how such action will connect with and affect the proclamation of September 22. Of course the men elected should be gentlemen of character, willing to swear support to the Constitution as of old, and known to be above reasonable suspicion of duplicity. Yours very respectfully, A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL JAMESON. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, GENERAL JAMESON, Upper Stillwater, Me.: How is your health now? Do you or not wish Lieut. R. P. Crawford to be restored to his office? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. B. MCCLELLAN. WAR DEPARTment, WashINGTON CITY, October 24 [25?], 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN: I have just read your despatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses. Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the battle of Antietam that fatigues anything? A. LINCOLN. VOL. VI.-8%. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. B. MCCLELLAN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, October 26, 1862. 11.30 A.M. MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN: Yours, in reply to mine about horses, received. Of course you know the facts better than I; still two considerations remain: Stuart's cavalry outmarched ours, having certainly done more marked service on the Peninsula and everywhere since. Secondly, will not a movement of our army be a relief to the cavalry, compelling the enemy to concentrate instead of foraging in squads everywhere? But I am so rejoiced to learn from your despatch to General Halleck that you begin crossing the river this morning. A. LINCOLN. TO GENERAL DIX. (Private and confidential.) EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, October 26, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL DIX, Fort Monroe, Virginia: Your despatch to Mr. Stanton, of which the enclosed is a copy, has been handed me by him. It would be dangerous for me now to begin construing and making specific applications of the proclamation. It is obvious to all that I therein intended to give time and opportunity. Also, it is seen I left myself at liberty to exempt parts of States. Without saying more, I shall be very glad if any Congressional district will, in good faith, do as your despatch contemplates. Could you give me the facts which prompted you to telegraph? Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. B. MCCLELLAN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, October 27, 1862. 12.10 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN: Yours of yesterday received. Most certainly I intend no injustice to any, and if I have done any I deeply regret it. To be told, after more than five weeks' total inaction of the army, and during which period we have sent to the army every fresh horse we possibly could, amounting in the whole to 7918, that the cavalry horses were too much fatigued to move, presents a very cheerless, almost hopeless, prospect for the future, and it may have forced something of impatience in my despatch. If not recruited and rested then, when could they ever be? I suppose the river is rising, and I am glad to believe you are crossing. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. B. MCCLELLAN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, October 27, 1862. 3.25 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN: Your despatch of 3 P.M. to-day, in regard to filling up old regiments with drafted men, is received, and the request therein shall be complied with as far as practicable. And now I ask a distinct answer to the question, Is it your purpose not to go into action again until the men now being drafted in the States are incorporated into the old regiments? A. LINCOLN TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. B. MCCLELLAN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN: Your despatches of night before last, yesterday, and last night all received. I am much pleased with the movement of the army. When you get entirely across the river let me know. of the enemy? What do you know A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR CURTIN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, GOVERNOR CURTIN, Harrisburg: By some means I have not seen your despatch of the 27th about order No. 154 until this moment. I now learn, what I knew nothing of before, that the history of the order is as follows: When General McClellan telegraphed asking General Halleck to have the order made, General Halleck went to the Secretary of War with it, stating his approval of the plan. The Secretary assented and General Halleck wrote the order. It was a military question, which the Secretary supposed the General understood better than he. I wish I could see Governor Curtin. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR JOHNSON. WAR DEPARTMENT, October 31, 1862. Gov. ANDREW JOHNSON, Nashville, Tenn., via Louisville, Ky.: Yours of the 29th received. I shall take it to General Halleck, but I already know it will be inconvenient to take General Morgan's command from where it now is. I am glad to hear you speak hopefully of Tennessee. I sincerely hope Rosecrans may find it possible to do something for her. David Nelson, son of the M. C. of your State, regrets his father's final defection, and asks me for a situation. Do you know him? Could he be of service to you or to Tennessee in any capacity in which I could send him? MEMORANDUM. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN-Captain Derrickson, with his company, has been for some time keeping guard at my residence, now at the Soldiers' |