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I fully appreciate Gen. Pope's splendid achievements with their invaluable results; but you must know that Major Generalships in the Regular Army, are not as plenty as blackberries.
A. LINCOLN
[1] ALS, DLC-RTL. Governor Yates and State Treasurer William Butler telegraphed on April 9, 1862, ``We appeal to you to transfer Maj Genl John Pope to the regular army with his present rank as a token of gratitude to Illinois. Give one of her sons a position in the U.S. army who has so gloriously achieved the just reward we ask for him.'' (DLC-RTL). On April 7-8 Pope's command, together with six ironclads and ten mortar boats under command of Andrew H. Foote, had captured Island No. 10 in the Mississippi below Cairo, Illinois.