Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, October 16, 1863 – 9 p.m.

WASHINGTON, October 16, 1863 9 p.m.
Major-General GRANT,
Cairo, Ill.:

You will immediately proceed to the Galt House, Louisville, Ky., where you will meet an officer of the War Department with your orders and instructions. You will take with you your staff, &c., for immediate operations in the field. Wait at Louisville for officer of the War Department.

H. W. HALLECK,    
General-in-Chief.

SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 30, Part 4 (Serial No. 53), p. 404

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