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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To William S. Rosecrans1Jump to section

Major Gen. Rosecrans Executive Mansion,
Murfreesboro Tenn. Washington, March 25, 1863.

Your despatches about Gen. Davis and Gen. Mitchell are received. Gen. Davis' case is not peculiar, being simply one of a great many recommended, and not nominated, because they would transcend the number allowed by the law. Gen. Mitchell was nominated and rejected by the Senate; and I do not think it proper for me to re-nominate him without a change of circumstances, such as the performance of additional service, or an expressed change of purpose on the part of at least some Senators who opposed him.

A. LINCOLN

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[1] ALS, RPB. General Rosecrans telegraphed on March 24, midnight, asking appointment of Brigadier General Jefferson C. Davis, formerly colonel of the Twenty-second Indiana Infantry, as a major general. On March 25 Rosecrans telegraphed a similar request for appointment of Brigadier General Robert B.

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Mitchell, formerly colonel of the Second Kansas Infantry. Neither was appointed, but Davis was brevetted major general of Volunteers as of August 8, 1864.