TELEGRAM TO GENERAL J. HOOKER WASHINGTON, June 22, 1863. Major-General Hooker: Operator at Lees burg just now says: I heard very little firing this A. M. about daylight, but it seems to have stopped now. It was in about the same direction as yesterday, but farther off. A. LINCOLN. *LETTER TO SECRETARY STANTON EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23, 1863. My dear Sir: You remember that Hon. W. D. Kelley and others are engaged in raising or trying to raise some colored regiments in Philadelphia. The bearer of this, Wilton M. Herpert, is a friend of Judge Kelley as appears by the letter of the latter. He is a private in the 112th Penn. and has been disappointed in a reasonable expectation of one of the smaller offices. He now wants to be a Lieutenant in one of the colored regiments. If Judge Kelley will say in writing he wishes to so have him, I am willing for him to be discharged from his present position and be so appointed. If you approve, so endorse and let him carry this letter to Kelley. Yours truly, 'A. LINCOLN. *TELEGRAM TO MAJOR VAN VLIET (Cipher.) WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23, 1863. Major Van Vliet, New York: Have you any idea what the news is in the dispatch of General Banks to General Halleck? A LINCOLN. *TELEGRAM TO GENERAL D. N. COUCH WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23, 1863. Major-General Couch, Harrisburg, Pa.: Have you any reports of the enemy moving into Pennsylvania? And if any what? A. LINCOLN. *TELEGRAM TO GENERAL J. A. Dix WASHINGTON, D. C., June 24, 1863. Major-General Dix, Yorktown, Va.: We have a dispatch from General Grant of the 19th. Don't think Kirby Smith took Milliken's Bend since, allowing time to get the news to Joe Johnston and from him to Richmond. But it is not absolutely impossible. Also have news from Banks to the 16th, I think. He had not run away then, nor thought of it. A. LINCOLN. NOTE TO SECRETARY CHASE EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 25, 1863. My dear Sir: Hon. William Kellogg will tell you plainly what he wants; and I wish him obliged so far as you can consistently do it. Please strain a point for him, if you do not have to strain it too far. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. *TELEGRAM TO GENERAL PECK WAR DEPARTMENT, June 25, 1863. General Peck, Suffolk, Va.: Colonel Derrom, of the Twenty-fifth New Jersey Volunteers, now mustered out, says there is a man in your hands under conviction for desertion, who formerly belonged to the above named regiment, and whose name is Templeton, Isaac F. Templeton, I believe. The colonel and others appeal to me for him. Please telegraph to me what is the condition of the case, and if he has not been executed send me the record of the trial and conviction. A. LINCOLN. *TELEGRAM TO GENERAL J. HOOKER War DepartmeNT, June 27, 1863.—8 a. M. Major-General Hooker: It did not come from the newspapers, nor did I believe it but I wished to be entirely sure it was a falsehood. A. LINCOLN. *TELEGRAM TO GENERAL A. E. BURNSIDE 1 EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 28, 1863. Major-General Burnside, Cincinnati, Ohio: There is nothing going on in Kentucky on the subject of which you telegraph, except an enrollment. Before anything is done beyond this, I will take care to understand the case better than I now do. A. LINCOLN. *TELEGRAM TO GENERAL R. C. SCHENCK WAR DEPARTMENT, June 28, 1863. Major-General Schenck, Baltimore, Md.: Every place in the Naval school subject to my appointment is full and I have one unredeemed promise of more than half a year's standing. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL D. N. COUCH WASHINGTON, June 28, 1863. 4 P. M. Major-General Couch: What news now? What are the enemy firing at four miles from your works? A LINCOLN. 1 The same telegram was sent to Governor J. T. Boyle of Ohio. |