Thursday, January 30, 2014

Governor Oliver P. Morton to Abraham Lincoln, October 21, 1862 – 9:50 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.,
October 21, 18629.15 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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