I wrote you a long letter last night. To-day I have obtained
for Collamore an order from the Secretary of War for three Kansas regiments,
including all their supplies, to be furnished by the United States. Of one
William A. Phillips is to be colonel, and Stewart one of the captains. It will
be the crack regiment of that state. I have also laid my plan for sending off
the fugitives. F. P. Blair, Sr., approves and will aid the enterprise,
remarking it will never do to return them to bondage. I am happy.
SOURCE: Preston Stearns, The Life and Public
Services of George Luther Stearns, p. 251
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