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Chapter 192
Order Returning Thanks to the Volunteers for One Hundred Days
Telegram to General W. T. Sherman. Washington, D. C., September 27, 1864.
Major-General Sherman, Atlanta, Georgia:
You say Jefferson Davis is on a visit to Hood. I judge that Brown and Stephens are the objects of his visit.
A. LINCOLN.
Telegram to General U. S. Grant. Washington, D.C., September 29,1864.
Lieutenant-General Grant, City Point, Va.:
I hope it will have no constraint on you, nor do harm any way, for me to say I am a little afraid lest Lee sends reinforcements to Early, and thus enables him to turn upon Sheridan.
A. LINCOLN.
Indorsement.
September 29, 1864.
I think the bearer of this, Second Lieutenant Albee, deserves a hearing. Will the Secretary of War please accord it to him?
A. LINCOLN.
From the States of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, October 1, 1864.
The term of one hundred days for which volunteers from the States of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin volunteered, under the call of their respective governors, in the months of May and June, to aid in the campaign of General Sherman, having expired; the President directs an official acknowledgment to be made of their patriotic service. It was their good fortune to render efficient service in the brilliant operations in the Southwest and to contribute to the victories of the national arms over the rebel forces in Georgia under command of Johnston and Hood. On all occasions and in every service to which they were assigned their duty as patriotic volunteers was performed with alacrity and courage, for which they are entitled to and are hereby tendered the national thanks through the governors of their respective States.
The Secretary of War is directed to transmit a copy of this order to the governors of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin and to cause a certificate of their honorable service to be delivered to the officers and soldiers of the States above named who recently served in the military force of the United States as volunteers for one hundred days.
A. LINCOLN.