To Edwin M. Stanton1Jump to section
Except an outside word now and then recently I know nothing of this recruiting for the regulars, from the volunteer regiments. How is this? I have heard a good deal of dissatisfaction about it before seeing this letter. A. LINCOLN
Oct. 30, 1862
Annotation
[1] Ritter-Hopson Galleries Catalog 37, March 9, 1933, No. 125. According to the catalog description, this endorsement is written on a letter from Colonel George C. Burling of the Sixth New Jersey Volunteers complaining of General Orders No. 154. See also Lincoln to Curtin, supra.