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 ABIRAHAM LINCOLN.

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aldria before him, or were there before his arrival, Sturgis, Kearney, Hooker, and Heintzelman, had all gone
forward and joined in these battles. Why ciuld not
Franklin-all of whose movements were controlled by
McClellan-do as much with him as his brother commanders lad done without him
The first thing that McClellan did, on reaching Alexandria, in the discharge of his duties to send forward
troops, was to stop those actually going! In Iis dispatch(
of August 27th, nine o'clock p. aM., he says to (;'eneral
Halleck-" I found part of Cox's command under orders
to take the cars: will halt it with Franklin until morning! And Cox never went out, though anxi,,usly expected and under orders to move. Whllat are the reasons
given by McClellan for not sending, or not permitting
Franklin to go? On the 27th, at quarter past eleven P. M.,
immediately after the positive order was issued for Franklin to move by forced marches and carry three or four
days' provisions, McClellan says:Franklin's artillery has no horses except for four guns without caissons. I can pick up no cavalry. * * I do not see that we have force
enough in hand to form a connection with Pope, whose exact position we
do not know.
A part of the perplexity he seelms to have been in was
removed that day at six o'clock p. M., when he received,
as he says, a copy of a dispatch from Pope to Halleck, in
which Pope says: "All forces now sent forward should
be sent to my right at Gainesville."
The next day, at one o'clock P. ai., he telegraphs:"I have been doing all possible to hurry artillery and cavalry. The
moment Franklin can be started with a reasonable amount of artillery he
shall go."
Again, at forty minutes past four of the 28th, he telegraphs:General Franklin is with me here. I will know in a few moments the
condition of artillery and cavalry. We are not yet in a condition to
move; may be by to-morrow morning.