To Edwin M. Stanton1Jump to section
Gen. Rousseau was our first active practical Military friend in Kentucky, as the within letter shows, & as I knew before. He raised two regiments of Kentuckians over the river in Indiana, before they would allow him to organize them in Kentucky. He fought bravely at Pittsburg Landing. These things entitle him to a fair hearing, which I ask the Secretary of War to give him.
June 23. 1862. A. LINCOLN
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[1] AES, NHi. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter from Joshua F. Speed, June 17, 1862, recommending that Rousseau be given a hearing on ``the army of the Ohio and the relation of its officers to the Government.''