To Jeremiah T. Boyle2Open page
Gen. J. T. Boyle Washington, D.C.,
Louisville, Ky. July 13. 1862.
We can not venture to order troops from Gen. Buell. We know not what condition he is in. He may be attacked himself. You must call on Gen. Halleck, who commands, and whose business it is to understand and care for the whole field. If you can not telegraph to him, send a messenger to him. A despatch has this moment come from Halleck at Tuscumbia-Alabama.2Jump to section FOOTNOTES}>(2) A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS, RPB. Boyle's dispatches to Stanton on July 13 reported Morgan's force at 2,800 to 3,000, and that requests for reinforcements from Buell remained unanswered. (OR, I, XVI, II, 736-37).
[2] Halleck's dispatches on July 13, so far as they have been located, are dated at Corinth, Mississippi, but General George H. Thomas was operating at Tuscumbia, Alabama.