Sunday, January 19, 2014

Major General John Pope to Abraham Lincoln, November 24, 1862 – 12:20 p.m.

SAINT PAUL, MINN.,
November 24, 1862 12.20 p m.

His Excellency ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President of the United States:

Official information has reached me from the officer in charge of the condemned Indians that organizations of inhabitants are being rapidly made with the purpose of massacring these Indians. He has been obliged in consequence to concentrate a considerable force for their protection, and during the cold weather it is impracticable to protect so large a body of troops and Indians from the weather. I trust that your decision and orders in the case will be transmitted as soon as practicable, as humanity to both the troops and Indians requires an immediate disposition of the case. I apprehend serious trouble with the people of this State, who are much exasperated against the criminal Indians.

 JNO. POPE,
Major-general.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 22, Part 1 (Serial No. 32), p. 790-1

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