Letter
Simon Cameron to His Excellency E. D. MoRGAN, August 27, 1861
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, August 27, 1861.
His Excellency E. D. MoRGAN, Governor of New York:
SIR: This will be handed you by Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Sherman, who will explain to your excelleney the purpose of the Department in requesting that three of the New York regiments first prepared for service may be put under the orders of General Sherman as soon as they ean be made ready. I willalso request your excelleney to send the next three New York regiments which may be ready, after those above indieated, to Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort. Va., and the Department will take it as a favor if you will inform it of your action in these matters.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
SIMON CAMERON,
Secretary of War.
Secretary of War.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, N. Alabama, S.W. Virginia, 1861–62. Location: Washington. Summary: Simon Cameron requests Governor Morgan to assign three prepared New York regiments to General Sherman and send the next three to Fort Monroe, coordinating troop deployments during the Civil War.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 6
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