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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