MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Murfreesborough, Tenn.:
Your despatch about "river patrolling" received. I have called the Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of War, and General-in-Chief together, and submitted it to them, who promise to do their very best in the case. I cannot take it into my own hands without producing inextricable confusion.
A. LINCOLN. [ [!-- H2 anchor --] ]
TELEGRAM TO SIMON CAMERON.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, February 13, 1863.
HON. SIMON CAMERON, Harrisburg, Pa.: General Clay is here and I suppose the matter we spoke of will have to be definitely settled now. Please answer.
A. LINCOLN. [ [!-- H2 anchor --] ]
TO ALEXANDER REED.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, February 22, 1863.
REV. ALEXANDER REED. MY DEAR SIR:—Your note, by which you, as General Superintendent of the United States Christian Commission, invite me to preside at a meeting to be held this day at the hall of the House of Representatives in this city, is received.