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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Autograph note signed ("A.Lincoln") as President, to SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN M. STANTON, [Washington, D.C.], 30 October 1862. 11 lines plus signature and dateline, written on the bottom left-hand corner of a letter from Colonel George C. Buling, lightly browned, soiled.
REVOKING A MCCLELLAN ORDER
Colonel Buling wrote Lincoln on 25 October 1862 complaining about an order, issued on General George B. McClellan's recommendation, that allowed officers of regular regiments to enlist soldiers from volunteer regiments; this had severely depleted Buling's brigade. The practice was severely criticized by Secretary of War Stanton and by the President. Here Lincoln comments: "Except an outside word now and then recently I know nothing of this recruiting for the regulars, from the volunteer regiments. How is this? I have heard a good deal of dissatisfaction about it before seeing this letter..."
This same day, General Halleck advised McClellan to revoke the order "'...and to return the...[new recruits] to their [original] batteries...'" (Basler, V:482).
REVOKING A MCCLELLAN ORDER
Colonel Buling wrote Lincoln on 25 October 1862 complaining about an order, issued on General George B. McClellan's recommendation, that allowed officers of regular regiments to enlist soldiers from volunteer regiments; this had severely depleted Buling's brigade. The practice was severely criticized by Secretary of War Stanton and by the President. Here Lincoln comments: "Except an outside word now and then recently I know nothing of this recruiting for the regulars, from the volunteer regiments. How is this? I have heard a good deal of dissatisfaction about it before seeing this letter..."
This same day, General Halleck advised McClellan to revoke the order "'...and to return the...[new recruits] to their [original] batteries...'" (Basler, V:482).