Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General Robert C. Schenck, October 21, 1863 – 2:45 p.m.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, October 21, 1863 2.45 p.m.
Major-General SCHENCK,
Baltimore, Md.:

A delegation is here saying that our armed colored troops are at many, if not all, the landings on the Patuxent River, and by their presence with arms in their hands are frightening quiet people, and producing great confusion. Have they been sent there by any order; and if so, for what reason?

A. LINCOLN.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 29, Part 2 (Serial No. 49), p. 363

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