WASHINGTON CITY,
May 15, 1862.
Major-General McCLELLAN,
Cumberland, Va.:
Your
long dispatch of yesterday* is just received. I will answer more fully
soon. Will say now that all your dispatches to the Secretary of War have been
promptly shown to me. Have done and shall do all I could and can to sustain
you. Hoped that the opening of James River and putting Wool and Burnside in
communication, with an open road to Richmond, or to you, had effected something
in that direction. I am still unwilling to take all our force off the direct
line between Richmond and here.
A. LINCOLN.
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SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
11, Part 3 (Serial No. 14), p. 173
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