Letter
Unknown to Abraham Lincoln, September 22, 1861
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.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 1861. Summary: Major-General Fremont informs President Lincoln of ordering naval action against rebels at Owensborough and deploying Illinois regiments to support Union operations in Kentucky and Tennessee.
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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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