Saturday, December 2, 2017

William P. Smith to Edwin M. Stanton, September 27, 1863 – Received 12:50 p.m.

CAMDEN STATION,          
Baltimore, Md., September 27, 1863.
(Received 12.50, p.m.)
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:

Our agent at Grafton has orders, he says, to hold all the Third Division, Eleventh Corps there until General Schurz arrives. May I suggest that this kind of thing will cripple your whole movement? I have therefore given a peremptory order to our agent that the trains shall not be so held unless his order comes from you.

W. P. SMITH.
(Same to General Hooker.)

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. 167

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