Yours received. I deeply regret that you were not renominated, not that I have aught against Mr. Brough. On the contrary, like yourself, I say hurrah for him.
A. LINCOLN. [ [!-- H2 anchor --] ]
TELEGRAM TO GENERAL DINGMAN.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., June 18, 1863.
GENERAL A. DINGMAN, Belleville, C. W.:
Thanks for your offer of the Fifteenth Battalion. I do not think Washington is in danger.
A. LINCOLN [ [!-- H2 anchor --] ]
TO B. B. MALHIOT AND OTHERS.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, June 19, 1863.
MESSRS. B. B. MALHIOT, BRADISH JOHNSON, AND THOMAS COTTMAN.