Executive Mansion,
Washington, July 1,
1862 – 3.30 p.m.
It is impossible to re-enforce you for your present
emergency. If we had a million of men we could not get them to you in time. We
have not the men to send. If you are not strong enough to face the enemy you
must find a place of security, and wait, rest, and repair Maintain your ground
if you can, but save the army at all events, even if you fall back to Fort
Monroe. We still have strength enough in the country and will bring it out.
A. LINCOLN.
SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
11, Part 1 (Serial No. 12), p. 72; Roy P. Basler, Editor, The Collected Works of Abraham
Lincoln, Vol. 5, p. 298; A
copy of this letter can be found in The Abraham Lincoln
Papers at the Library of Congress;
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