Saturday, April 12, 2014

Edwin M. Stanton to Governor Andrew G. Curtin, September 8, 1862 – 4:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 1862 4.30 p.m.
Governor CURTIN,  Harrisburg:

Your telegram just received. We have no troops in Washington or Baltimore to send to Harrisburg, it being supposed that the best defense of Harrisburg is to strengthen the force now marching against the enemy under General McClellan.

EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 19, Part 2 (Serial No. 28), p. 217

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