Annotation
[1] ADfS, DLC-RTL. The occasion for this communication was Lincoln's interview on September 30 with a delegation of Missouri and Kansas Union men whose demands are fully answered in Lincoln's letter to Charles D. Drake and others, October 5, infra. On October 19, Schofield enclosed a copy of Lincoln's letter of October 1, with comment, to Brigadier General John B. Sanborn, sent to relieve John McNeil as commander of Southwestern Missouri: ``I cannot do more or better than to commend these instructions to your careful consideration, as setting forth the principles by which you are to be guided in the discharge of the most delicate duties which will devolve upon you. . . .'' (OR, I, XXII, II, 666).
[2] Lincoln deleted ``mischief'' and substituted ``injury.''
[3] This sentence is revised to the present reading in the draft, but originally stood as follows: ``Report to me the status and action, of the enrolled militia. It must be either under United States orders, or be without United States support, and without the proclamation in regard to Habeas Corpus.'' On October 20, Schofield replied that the militia had done good service but recommended that its service be dispensed with as fast as it was possible to replace militia with troops raised for general service (ibid., pp. 666-68).