Annotation
[1] ALS, RPB. There seems to have been some confusion and conflict in authority between Henry M. Judah and Pitcairn Morrison, as mustering officers at Springfield, which was cleared up by the Adjutant General's Office on the same day (OR, III, II, 435, 441). Yates replied somewhat heatedly to Lincoln's telegram, ``I have received your unjust dispatch. I have not rejected the service of any officer. The statement is false. Illinois may be behind in getting her troops into the field because you have sent your paymasters and mustering officers to Pennsylvania and Indiana first, but I assert, sir, that no State has done more in so short a time than Illinois has without aid from your paymasters and mustering officers, and I point with pride to 50,000 men now ready to go into the field, and only delayed, not by me, but for the want of blankets, guns, camp-kettles, &c., which come from your depot. I regard your dispatch as unkind to me and unjust to your State.'' (OR, III, II, 441). See further Lincoln's telegram to Yates on August 25, infra.