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[1] ALS, RPB. Thomas A. Scott, who had resigned as assistant secretary of war on June 1, 1862, was called back from his job as first vice-president of
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
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- Title
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
- Author
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
- 1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln6. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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Page 494
the Pennsylvania Railroad to supervise transport of the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps to Rosecrans at Chattanooga (see Lincoln to Rosecrans, September 28, supra). Scott replied at 9 P.M.:
``In reply to your inquiry, will say, have sent south fifteen trains [,] troops with nine thousand four hundred seventy men from East, and thirteen hundred forty from Cairo. Total---ten thousand eight hundred ten, and one battery of artillery.
``Ten trains had passed Nashville up to nine thirty (9.30) AM this morning, and all of them are at Bridgeport [Alabama] before this hour. Every thing that has reached this point has gone forward. We are hoping to get another battery and about sixteen hundred men by midnight. Will ship them before daylight could handle them more rapidly, if Eastern roads could let us have them.
``Genl Hooker left at eight this morning. Genl Howard at four thirty (4 30) PM. Eleventh Corps all gone, and part of Twelfth.''