Abraham Lincoln to Brigadier General Montgomery C. Meigs, Friday, January 10, 1862

General, what shall I do ? The people are impatient ; Chase has no money and he tells me he can raise no more; the General of the Army has typhoid fever. The bottom is out of the tub. What shall I do?

SOURCE: "General M. C. Meigs on the Conduct of the Civil War," The American Historical Review, Volume 26, p. 292

• See Brigadier General Montgomery Meigs’ reply.