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[1] Copy, DLC-RTL. On June 27, Paymaster General Andrews wrote Secretary Stanton: ``I have the honor to submit herewith a copy of a communication [as above] from His Excellency, the President, and to reply. . . . That we are constantly, from time to time, as the state of the service will permit, carrying out substantially, in advance, the measures the President suggests, although much opposed in doing so by the influential friends of some of the officers ordered to the South, to relieve others. . . . Indeed we have already done so much in advance of . . . the President's ideas, that I fear he will soon have urgent and loud complaints . . . from the friends of those lately ordered South, as our difficulty is to get anyone to go to the Southern Stations. . . .'' (DLC-RTL). See further Lincoln to Andrews, July 7, infra.