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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