The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863 by Abraham Lincoln
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WAR DEPARTMENT, May 25, 1862.
GENERAL SAXTON, Harper's Ferry: If Banks reaches Martinsburg, is he any the better for it? Will not the enemy cut him from thence to Harper's Ferry? Have you sent anything to meet him and assist him at Martinsburg? This is an inquiry, not an order. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL R. SAXTON. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 25, 1862. 6.30 P.M. GENERAL SAXTON, Harper's Ferry: One good six-gun battery, complete in its men and appointments, is now on its way to you from Baltimore. Eleven other guns, of different sorts, are on their way to you from here. Hope they will all reach you before morning. As you have but 2500 men at Harper's Ferry, where are the rest which were in that vicinity and which we have sent forward? Have any of them been cut off? A. LINCOLN. |
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