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[1] ALS, DLC-Cameron Papers. Buell answered Lincoln's telegram on January 5: ``Arms can only go forward for East Tennessee under the protection of an army. My organization of the troops has had in view two columns with reference to that movement. . . . But it was necessary also to have regard to contingencies which. . . might require a modification. . . . I will confess. . . I have been bound to it more by. . . sympathy for the people of Eastern Tennessee, and the anxiety with which yourself and the General in Chief have desired it, than by my opinion of its wisdom. . . .'' (DLC-RTL). Buell also expressed the view that an attack upon Nashville, Tennessee, would be preferable to the movement into East Tennessee. See Lincoln to Buell, January 6, infra.