Thursday, December 7, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Major George L. Stearns, September 18, 1863

WAR DEPARTMENT,         
Washington, D.C., September 18, 1863.
Major STEARNS,
Nashville :

If any difference of opinion exists or shall arise between Governor Johnson and yourself respecting the organization and employment of colored men in the State of Tennessee, he being the State Executive, you will conform your action to his views. All dissension is to be avoided, and if there is any want of harmony between you you had better leave Nashville and proceed to Cairo to await orders, reporting by telegraph your departure from Nashville and your arrival at Cairo.

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 III, Volume 3 (Serial No. 124), p. 823

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