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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 145 (search)
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143.-President Lincoln's letter.
Executive Mansion, Washington, August 16, 1863. Hon. James C. Conkling:
My dear sir: Your letter inviting me to attend a mass meeting of unconditional Union men, to be held at the capital of Illinois on the third of September, has been received.
It would be very agreeable to me thus to meet my old friends at my own home, but I cannot just now be absent from this city so long as a visit there would require.
The meeting is to be composed of all those who maintain unconditional devotion to the Union; and I am sure that my old political friends will thank me for tendering, as I do, the nation's gratitude to those other noble men whom no partisan malice or partisan hope can make false to the nation's life.
There are those who are dissatisfied with me. To such I would say, you desire peace, and you blame me that we do not have it. But how can we obtain it?
There are but three conceivable ways.
First, to suppress the rebellion by forc
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 164 (search)
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161.-battle of White Stone Hill, Dakota Territory.
General Sully's report.
headquarters Indian expedition, camp at mouth of Lttle Sheyenne River, Sept. 11, 1863.
Major: The last report I had the honor to send you was from the mouth of this Little Sheyenne River, bearing date August sixteenth, 1863; since which time my movements have been too rapid and the danger of sending any communication such that it has been impossible for me to do so. I therefore have the honor to report my movements from last report up to date.
On the morning of the nineteenth the steamer I was waiting for with supplies finally arrived.
She was immediately unloaded, and all the baggage of the officers and men of the command was sent down by her to the depot at Fort Pierre, together with every man who was in the least sick or not well mounted.
By this I reduced my force considerably, and was enabled to transport with the wretched mules that had been furnished me about twenty-three days rati