NEW YORK CITY, November
3, 1864.
(Received 4 p.m.)
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
General Butler has arrived and presented his order. It seems
to contemplate that he is to be in the city, in command of the troops to be
sent here. This is not the weak point; it is on the frontier from Saint Albans
to Buffalo, and at least half of the troops should go there. I write to know
whether disposition of the troops is in my discretion. I should not make the
inquiry but for the peculiar form of the order.
JNO. A. DIX,
Major-General.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
43, Part 1 (Serial No. 91), p. 535
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