To George B. McClellan1Jump to section
Please read and consider this letter. A.L.
Annotation
[1] OR, I, VII, 469, 470. There are two identical endorsements of this date on two letters from Samuel P. Carter to Horace Maynard, November 21, and 25, 1861. Carter, as acting brigadier general of the East Tennessee Brigade at Camp Calvert near London, Kentucky, requested Representative Maynard of East Tennessee to get action in moving troops (his brigade in particular) to the defense of East Tennessee and Kentucky. McClellan forwarded the letters to General Buell, December 3, 1861, ordering him to ``send. . . with the least possible delay, troops enough to protect these men. . . . You may fully rely on my full support in. . . the liberation of Eastern Tennessee. . . .'' (Ibid., p. 468.)