Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 [Oct. 24, 1861-Dec. 12, 1862].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 [Oct. 24, 1861-Dec. 12, 1862].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To Edwin M. Stanton1Jump to section

Hon. Secretary of War Executive Mansion
My dear Sir Sep. 11, 1862

I have two long letters from Mr. Belmont, and the above extract is the only part in either, which can be construed to alude to you. I will show you the letters if you wish. Yours as ever

A. LINCOLN

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[1] ALS, NHi. August Belmont's twelve-page letter of September 4, 1862, communicating views of influential parties in England and concerned with the danger of foreign recognition of the Confederacy following military defeat, is in the Nicolay Papers (DLC). The extract from it which Lincoln enclosed to Stanton (not in Lincoln's handwriting) reads as follows:

``I think that new vigor and energy would be infused into our military operations, and the exhausted ranks of our army would be speedily filled, if you would place General Halleck at the head of the Department as Secretary of War, and appoint General McClellan Commander-in-Cheif of the United States forces east of the Allegheny mountains, which would place the operations in Virginia, Washington and Maryland, under his sole control.''

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