Sunday, December 3, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Major Charles A. Dana, September 24, 1863 – 3:30 a.m.

WAR DEPARTMENT,         
Washington, September 24, 1863 3.30 a.m.
Maj. C. A. DANA, Chattanooga:

We have made arrangements to send 15,000 infantry, under General Hooker, from here and will have them in Nashville in five or six days from to-day, with orders to push on immediately wherever General Rosecrans wants them.

EDWIN M. STANTON,       
Secretary of War.

SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 29, Part 1 (Serial No. 48), p. 151-2

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