TELEGRAM TO GENERAL H. G. WRIGHT. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., GENERAL WRIGHT, Cincinnati, Ohio: Thanks for your despatch. Can you not pursue the retreating enemy, and relieve Cumberland Gap? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. B. McCLELLAN. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, September 15, 1862. 2.45 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN: Your despatch of to-day received. God bless you, and all with you. Destroy the rebel army if possible. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO J. K. DUBOIS. WASHINGTON, D. C., September 15, 1862. 3 P.M. HON. J. K. DUBOIS, Springfield, Illinois: I now consider it safe to say that General McClellan has gained a great victory over the great rebel army in Maryland, between Fredericktown and Hagerstown. He is now pursuing the flying foe. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR CURTIN. WASHINGTON, D. C., September 16, 1862. Noon. GOVERNOR CURTIN, Harrisburg: What do you hear from General McClellan's army? We have nothing from him to-day. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR MORTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., September 17, 1862. GOVERNOR O. P. MORTON, Indianapolis, Indiana: I have received your despatch in regard to recommendations of General Wright. I have received no such despatch from him, at least not that I can remember. I refer yours for General Halleck's consideration. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL KETCHUM. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON September 20, 1862. GENERAL KETCHUM, Springfield, Illinois: How many regiments are there in Illinois, ready for service but for want of arms? How many arms have you there ready for distribution? A. LINCOLN. PRELIMINARY EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, SEPTEMBER 22, 1862. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation. I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States TELEGRAM TO GENERAL J. T. BOYLE. GENERAL BOYLE, Louisville, Kentucky: What force, and what the numbers of it, which General Nelson had in the engagement near Richmond yesterday? A. LINCOLN. ORDER TO GENERAL H. W. HALLECK. WASHINGTON, D. C., September 3, 1862. Ordered, That the general-in-chief, Major-General Halleck, immediately commence, and proceed with all possible despatch, to organize an army, for active operations, from all the material within and coming within his control, independent of the forces he may deem necessary for the defense of Washington when such active army shall take the field. By order of the President: Copy delivered to Major-General Halleck, September 3, 1862, at 10 P.M. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant-Adjutant General. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL H. G. WRIGHT. WAR DEPARTMent, WashinGTON, D. C., GENERAL WRIGHT, Cincinnati, Ohio: Do you know to any certainty where General Bragg is? May he not be in Virginia? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL J. T. BOYLE. War Department, WashingtON, D. C., GENERAL BOYLE, Louisville, Kentucky: Where is General Bragg? What do you know on the subject? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL J. E. WOOL. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAJOR-GENERAL WOOL, Baltimore: What about Harper's Ferry? Do you know anything about it? How certain is your information about Bragg being in the valley of the Shenandoah? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. B. MCCLELLAN. MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN, Rockville, Maryland: How does it look now? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL D. C. BUELL. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, GENERAL BUELL: What degree of certainty have you that Bragg, VOL. VI.-9. with his command, is not now in the valley of the Shenandoah, Virginia? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO T. WEBSTER. WASHINGTON, September 9, 1862. THOMAS WEBSTER, Philadelphia: Your despatch received, and referred to General Halleck, who must control the questions presented. While I am not surprised at your anxiety, I do not think you are in any danger. If half our troops were in Philadelphia, the enemy could take it, because he would not fear to leave the other half in his rear; but with the whole of them here, he dares not leave them in his rear. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. B. MCCLELLAN. WAR DEPARTment, Washington City, September 10, 1862. 10.15 A.m. MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN, Rockville, Maryland: How does it look now? A. LINCOLN. TO GOVERNOR CURTIN. WAR DEPARTment, WashinGTON, D. C., HIS EXCELLENCY Andrew G. CURTIN, Governor of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. SIR: The application made to me by your adjutant general for authority to call out the militia of the |