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[1] ALS, IHi. The address ``Falmouth'' is added following Burnside's name by Stanton. Burnside's reply, received at 6 P.M., reads as follows: ``My application for the appointment of Gen Stahl is based upon the recommendation of Gen Sigel who has been a very useful and efficient officer during the time that I have had command of this army. He is decidedly of the opinion that Gen Stahl is the best man.'' (NHi). On the back of the telegram Lincoln endorsed ``Let Gen.
Stahl be appointed. Dec. 16. 1862. A. LINCOLN.'' Colonel Julius Stahel of the Eighth New York Infantry was appointed brigadier general on November 12, 1861, and assigned to temporary command of the Eleventh Corps on December 18, 1862, during the absence of General Sigel (OR, I, LI, I, 960), and on January 10, 1863, he was named to the command when Sigel assumed command of the Division comprising the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps (OR, I, XXI, 962). Stahel became major general on March 14, 1863.