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Title: Complete works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901, ed Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint ed Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 Fish, Daniel, 1848-1924
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : Francis D. Tandy Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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o General W. S. Rosecrans War Department, October 4, 1863. 11.30 a.m.Major-General Rosecrans, Chattanooga,Tenn.: Yours of yesterday received. If wecan hold Chattanooga and East Tennessee, Ithink the rebellion must dwindle and die. Ithink you and Burnside can do this, and hencedoing so is your main object. Of course togreatly damage or destroy the enemy in yourfront would be a greater object, because it wouldinclude the former and more, but it is not socertainly within your power. I understand themain body of the enemy is very near you, sonear that you could board at home, so to speak,and menace or attack him any day. Would notthe doing of this be your best mode of counter-acting his raid on your communications? Butthis is not an order. I intend doing somethinglike what you suggest whenever the case shallappear ripe enough to have it accepted in thetrue understanding rather than as a confessionof weakness and fear. A. LINCOLN. Montgomery BlairWood Engraving after a Photograph by Brady.
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1863) Letter to Drake 155 Letter to Charles D. Drake and Others Executive Mansion,Washington, D. C, October 5, 1863. GENTLEMEN: Your original addresspresented on the 30th ultimo, and thefour supplementary ones presented onthe 3d instant, have been carefully considered.I hope you will regard the other duties claimingmy attention, together with the great length andimportance of these documents, as constitutinga sufficient apology for my not having respondedsooner. These papers, framed for a commonobject consist of the things demanded and thereasons for demanding them. The things de-manded are: First: That General Schofield shall be re-lieved, and General Butler be appointed, as com-mander of the military department of Missouri. Second. That the system of enrolled militiain Missouri may be broken up, and nationalforces be substituted for it; and Third. That at elections persons may not beallowed to vote who are not entitled by law todo so. Among the reasons given, enough of suffering 156

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