Sunday, February 11, 2018

Major-General John A. Dix to Edwin M. Stanton, November 3, 1864 – Received 4 p.m.

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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