Monday, December 4, 2017

Major-General William S. Rosecrans to Abraham Lincoln, September 22, 1863 – 5:40 p.m.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN., September 22, 1863 5.40 p.m.       
(Received 9.50 p.m.)
His Excellency ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President of the United States:

Have dispatched daily (Mr. Dana oftener) to the War Department. I trust you will receive those dispatches. We are now in Chattanooga in line of battle, the enemy threatening our whole front; have pushed to our picket line. Whether they will attack to-day uncertain. General Burnside will be too late to help us. We are about 30,000 brave and determined men; but our fate is in the hands of God, in whom I hope.

W. S. ROSECRANS,
Major-General.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 30, Part 1 (Serial No. 50), p. 197-8

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