To Edwin M. Stanton1Jump to section
Bedford, Pa. Sept. 6 1863
Burnside has Kingston, & Knoxville, and drove the enemy across the river at Loudon, the enemy destroying the bridge there. Captured some stores & one or two trains. Very little fighting---few wounded and none killed. No other news of consequence.
A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS, RPB. The news which Lincoln relayed to Stanton had been telegraphed by Burnside to Halleck on September 3 and received at 12 P.M. on September 5 (OR, I, XXX, III, 333).