WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City,
September 18, 1864.
Governor MORTON,
Indianapolis:
It appears from a
dispatch received from General Sherman last night that his army is jealously
watching whether the draft will be suspended or enforced. The general says:
If
the President modifies it to the extent of one man, or wavers in its execution,
he is gone. Even the army would vote against him.*
You can judge from
this what effect the recall of troops and delaying the draft is likely to have
on your election.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
_______________
* For full dispatch see Series
I, Vol. XXXIX, Part II, p. 396.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III, Volume
4 (Serial No. 125), p. 732
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