Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 [Oct. 24, 1861-Dec. 12, 1862].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 [Oct. 24, 1861-Dec. 12, 1862].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To Andrew Johnson1Jump to section

Gov. Andrew Johnson Washington City, D.C.
Nashville, Tenn. Nov. 14th. 1862

Your despatch of the 4th. about returning troops from Western Virginia to Tennessee, is just received, and I have been to Gen. Halleck with it. He says an order has already been made by which those troops have already moved, or soon will move, to Tennessee.

A. LINCOLN.

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[1] ALS, RPB. Governor Johnson's dispatch of November 4 is not in the Lincoln Papers. On November 15, Halleck instructed General Horatio G. Wright that General Jacob D. Cox in command of the District of Western Virginia ``should be directed to leave sufficient troops to hold the access to the Kanawha Valley, and move immediately with the remainder . . . to the defense of the railroad at Grafton. . . . The Tennessee troops should be sent to General Rosecrans.'' (OR, I, XIX, II, 586).

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