Annotation
[1] OR, II, I, 230. Lincoln's qualified authorization was endorsed on a telegram from Halleck to McClellan, St. Louis, November 20, 1861, reading as follows: ``No written authority is found here to declare and enforce martial law in this department. Please send me such written authority and telegraph me that it has been sent by mail.'' Lorenzo Thomas to Halleck, November 25, communicated McClellan's request for more information before issuing the authority, and on November 30 Halleck replied, citing the insurrection in Northern Missouri: ``. . . I cannot arrest such men and seize their papers without exercising martial law for there is no civil law or civil authority to reach them . . . . if the President is not willing to intrust me with it he should relieve me from the command. . . .'' (Ibid., 232). See Lincoln to Halleck, December 2, infra.