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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