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Please name as early a day as you safely can, on, or before which you can be ready to move Southward in concert with Gen.
Halleck. Delay is ruining us; and it is indispensable for me to have something definite. I send a like despatch to Halleck.
A. LINCOLN
[1] ALS, DLC-RTL. See also Lincoln to Halleck, infra. There is no reply from Buell in the Lincoln Papers or in the Official Records, but see Lincoln to McClellan, January 9, infra. Anson Stager, manager of the Telegraph Department wrote Lincoln on January 8, ``. . . I made special inquiry as to the cause of the delay of Telegraphic despatches to and from Louisville. The manager at Louisville states that Gen'l Buell was absent from the city and beyond the reach of the Telegraph. . . An order has been issued to give precedence to all your telegrams and also to acknowledge by telegraph that they have reached their destination. Your telegram of yesterday reached Louisville at 3 P.M.'' (DLC-RTL).