Letter
John C. Frémont to Abraham Lincoln, September 22, 1861
A HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,
September 22, 1861.
: ; Saint Louis, September 22, 1861.. A. LINCOLN, President, Washington : 3 Your dispatch received. I have immediately ordered Captain Foote with gunboat to dislodge the rebels from Owensborough, and will take measures to guard the Ohio. CEU VAM e IP La Md OR EO CR E rre P zi et x Have placed my two Illinois regiments at Camp Dennison, near Cin– cinnati, at the disposal of General Anderson, and so informed him by – telegraph.
E J. C. FREMONT,
Major-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT SOUTHEAST Missouri,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT SOUTHEAST Missouri,
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 1861.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 4
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