Annotation
[1] ALS (copy?), DLC---RTL. Although the autograph letter in the Lincoln Papers is addressed only to Hunter, the Official Records (I, VIII, 551) has this letter addressed to both generals. General Hunter wrote Stanton on February 1, 1862, that Lane had not accepted the appointment as brigadier general and that ``on his arrival. . . he stated. . . that he was `my visitor as a Senator of the United States and a member of the Senate Military Committee' . . . . I find myself compelled. . . to request that some definite character shall be given to Senator Lane. . . . I am satisfied that Senator Lane feels aggrieved and disappointed. . . at the position to which his acceptance of his commission would assign him.'' (DLC---RTL). Hunter also wrote Lincoln on February 4, asking that Lane be ``called upon either to accept his position as Brigadier General and report for duty, or have his appointment to that position withdrawn, or be transferred to some other Department. . . .'' (Ibid.). See also Lincoln to Stanton, January 31, supra.