Thursday, February 15, 2018

Edwin M. Stanton to Governor Oliver P. Morton, September 18, 1864

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.
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* 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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