The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

288 TIIE LIFE, PUBLIC SERVICES, AND
General McDowell had telegraphed McClellan as follows on the 10th of June:For the third time I am ordered to join you, and hope this time to get
through. In view of tile remarks made with reference to my leaving
you, and not joining you before, by your friends, and of something I
have heard as coming friom you on that subject, I wish to say, I go with
the greatest satisfaction, and hope to arrive with my main body in time
to be of service. McCall goes in advance by water. I will be with you
in ten days with the remainder by Fredericksburg.
And again, June 12th:The delay of Major-General Banks to relieve the division of my command in the valley beyond the time I had calculated on, will prevent my
joining you with the remainder of the troops I am to take below at as
early a day as I named. My Third Division (McCall's) is now on the way.
Please do me the favor to 80 place it that it may be in a position to join
the others as they come dlown from Fredericksburg.
These telegrams, it will be seen, are in accordance with
the orders to McDowell of the 8th, which directed that
McCall's Division should continue to form part of the
Army of the Rappahannock, and required that McDowell
should operate in the direction of Riclmond, to co-operate with McClellan in accordance with instructions heretofore gicen him.
These instructions are those of the 17th and 18th of
May, concerning which McClellan sent to the President
his long telegram of the 21st, in which he says:This fact (fcDowell's forces coming within his department), my superior rank, and the express language of the sixty-second article of war,
will place his command under my orders, unless it is otherwise specially
directed by your Excellency, and I consider that he will be under my
command, except that I am not to detach any portion of his forces, or
give any orders which can put him out of position to cover Washington
To this the President answered:
You will have command of McDowell after he joins you, precisely as
you indicated in your long dispatch to us of the 21st.
In regard to this, McClellan, in his report (August 4th,
1863), says: