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.

STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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30th without Franklin's help. Why was this? Were
the orders to send Franklin out countermanded 1 General
Halleck says they were not. As it is never just to judge
a person by the light obtained after the fact, let us see, so
far as the correspondence enables us, what were thll different phases of the case as they presented themselves at
the time.
The intimation to McClellan on tlhe 26th, that Franklin
was to go to the front, was followed by the positive orders of the 27th, given at 10 A. A. and 12 IM. On that day
General McClellan reports that Generals Franklin, Smith,
and Slocum are all in Washingtn; and that hel had given
orders to place the corps in readiness to marcli to the
next in rank. At the same time, he reports heavy firing
at Centreville.
On the 28th, Halleck, learning that McClellan, who it
seems had also gone to Washington, had not returned to
Alexandria, sent orders to Franklin direct, to move with
his corps that day (the 28th) towards Manassas Junction.
On the 28th, at 3.30 p. ir., Halleck informs McClellan that
"not a moment must be lost in pushing as large a force
as possible towards Manassas, so as to communicate with
Pope before the enemy is re-enforced." On the same
day, at 7.40 P. Mi., he again tells him:There must be no further delay in moving Franklin's Corps towards
Manassas. They must go to-morrowr morning, ready or not rcaly. If wev
delay too long to get ready, there will be no necessity to go at all, for
Pope will either be defeated or victorious without our aid. If there is a
want of wagons, the men must carry provisions with them till the wagons
come to their relief.
There is no possible room for misunderstanding the intention of the General-in-Chief from these orders. He
wished, and ordered, that communication should be at
once re-established with Pope, and Pope re-enforced in
time to be of service.
Why did not McClellan re-establish the communication,
and re-enforce Pope in time to be of service? Why did
he halt Franklin's Corps at Anandale?
He gives reasons for this in his telegram to Halleck of