Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General George B. McClellan, September 15, 1862 – 2:45 p.m.

WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington, September 15, 1862 2.45 p.m.
Major-General MCCLELLAN:

Your dispatch of to-day received. God bless you and all with you. Destroy the rebel army if possible.

A. LINCOLN.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 19, Part 1 (Serial No. 27), p. 53

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