INDIANAPOLIS, IND.,
October 21, 1862
– 9.15 p.m.
His Excellency the
PRESIDENT:
An officer just from Louisville announces that Bragg has
escaped with his army into East Tennessee, and that Buell's army is
countermarching to Lebanon. The butchery of our troops at Perryville was
terrible, and resulted from a large portion of the enemy being precipitated
upon a small portion of ours. Sufficient time was thus gained by the enemy to
enable them to escape. Nothing but success, speedy and decided, will save our
cause from utter destruction. In the Northwest distrust and despair are seizing
upon the hearts of the people.
O. P. MORTON,
Governor of Indiana.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
16, Part 2 (Serial No. 23), p. 634
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