Friday, January 17, 2014

Major General Henry W. Halleck to Major General George B. McClellan, October 14, 1862

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 14, 1862.

Major-general McCLELLAN:

Your telegram of 7 p.m., yesterday, is just received. As I have already informed you, the Government has been, and is, making every possible effort to increase the cavalry force. Remounts are sent to you as rapidly as they can be procured. The President has read your telegram, and directs me to suggest that, if the enemy had more occupation south of the river, his cavalry would not be so likely to make raids north of it.

H. W. HALLECK,
General-in- Chief.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 19, Part 2 (Serial No. 28), p. 421

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