The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863. Lincoln Abraham

H. W. HALLECK

WAR DEPARTMENT, JUNE 30, 1862. 3 P. M

      MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, Corinth:

      Your telegram of this date just received. The Chattanooga expedition must not on any account be given up. The President regards that and the movement against East Tennessee as one of the most important movements of the war, and its occupation nearly as important as the capture of Richmond. He is not pleased with the tardiness of the movement toward Chattanooga, and directs that no force be sent here if you cannot do it without breaking up the operations against that point and East Tennessee. Infantry only are needed; our cavalry and artillery are strong enough. The first reports from Richmond were more discouraging than the truth warranted. If the advantage is not on our side, it is balanced. General McClellan has moved his whole force on the line of the James River, and is supported there by our gunboats; but he must be largely strengthened before advancing, and hence the call on you, which I am glad you answered so promptly. Let me know to what point on the river you will send your forces, so as to provide immediately for transportation.

      EDWIN M. STANTON,

      Secretary of War.

      WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 1862

MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, Corinth, Mississippi:

      Would be very glad of 25,000 infantry; no artillery or cavalry; but please do not send a man if it endangers any place you deem important to hold, or if it forces you to give up or weaken or delay the expedition against Chattanooga. To take and hold the railroad at or east of Cleveland, in East Tennessee, I think fully as important as the taking and holding of Richmond.

      A. LINCOLN.

      CALL FOR 300,000 VOLUNTEERS, JULY 1, 1862

June 28, 1861

      The undersigned, governors of States of the Union, impressed with the belief that the citizens of the States which they respectively represent are of one accord in the hearty desire that the recent successes of the Federal arms may be followed up by measures which must insure the speedy restoration of the Union, and believing that, in view of the present state of the important military movements now in progress, and the reduced condition of our effective forces in the field, resulting from the usual and unavoidable casualties in the service, the time has arrived for prompt and vigorous measures to be adopted by the people in support of the great interests committed to your charge, respectfully request, if it meets with your entire approval, that you at once call upon the several States for such number of men as may be required to fill up all military organizations now in the field, and add to the armies heretofore organized such additional number of men as may, in your judgment, be necessary to garrison and hold all the numerous cities and military positions that have been captured by our armies, and to speedily crush the rebellion that still exists in several of the Southern States, thus practically restoring to the civilized world our great and good government. All believe that the decisive moment is near at hand, and to that end the people of the United States are desirous to aid promptly in furnishing all reinforcements that you may deem needful to sustain our government.

      ISRAEL WASHBURN, JR., Governor of Maine.

      H. S. BERRY, Governor of New Hampshire.

      FREDERICK HOLBROOK, Governor of Vermont.

      WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM, Governor of Connecticut.

      E. D. MORGAN, Governor of New York.

      CHARLES S. OLDEN, Governor of New Jersey.

      A. G. CURTIN, Governor of Pennsylvania.

      A. W. BRADFORD, Governor of Maryland.

      F. H. PIERPOINT, Governor of Virginia.

      AUSTIN BLAIR, Governor of Michigan.

      J. B. TEMPLE, President Military Board of Kentucky.

      ANDREW JOHNSON, Governor of Tennessee.

      H. R. GAMBLE, Governor of Missouri.

      O. P. MORTON, Governor of Indiana.

      DAVID TODD, Governor of Ohio.

      ALEXANDER RAMSEY, Governor of Minnesota.

      RICHARD YATES, Governor of Illinois.

      EDWARD SALOMON, Governor of Wisconsin.

      THE PRESIDENT

      EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, July 1, 1862

      GENTLEMEN: — Fully concurring in the wisdom of the views expressed to me in so patriotic a manner by you, in the communication of the twenty-eighth day of June, I have decided to call into the service an additional force of 300,000 men. I suggest and recommend that the troops should be chiefly of infantry. The quota of your State would be — . I trust that they may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnecessary and injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory conclusion. An order fixing the quotas of the respective States will be issued by the War Department to-morrow.

      A. LINCOLN.

      PROCLAMATION CONCERNING TAXES IN REBELLIOUS STATES, JULY 1, 1862

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

      A Proclamation.

      Whereas in and by the second section of an act of Congress passed on the 7th day of June, A. D. 1862, entitled "An act for the collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts within the United States, and for other purposes," it is made the duty of the President to declare, on or before the first day of July then next following, by his proclamation, in what States and parts of States insurrection exists:

      Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the State of Virginia except the following counties-Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Pleasants, Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer, Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upsbur, Randolph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Webster, Fayette, and Raleigh-are now in insurrection and rebellion, and by reason thereof the civil authority of the United States is obstructed so that the provisions of the "Act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay the interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," approved August 5, 1861, can not be peaceably executed; and that the taxes legally chargeable upon real estate under the act last aforesaid lying within the States and parts of States as aforesaid, together with a penalty of 50 per centum of said taxes, shall be a lien upon the tracts or lots of the same, severally charged, till paid.

      In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.......

      A. LINCOLN.

      By the President: F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary of State.

      MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, JULY 1, 1862

TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

      I most cordially recommend that Captain Andrew H. Foote, of the United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks of Congress for his eminent services in Organizing the flotilla on the western Waters, and for his gallantry at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Island Number Ten, and at various other places, whilst in command of the naval forces, embracing a period of nearly ten months.

      A. LINCOLN.

      WASHINGTON, D. C. July 1, 1862

      TELEGRAM TO GENERAL McCLELLAN

WASHINGTON, JULY 1,1862. 3.30 P.M

      MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN:

      It is impossible to reinforce you for your present emergency. If we had a million of men, We could not get them to you