and on Saturday, the seventh, Meade drove the enemy from Rappahannock Station and Kelly's Ford, capturing eight battle-flags, four guns, and over 1800 prisoners, with very little loss to himself. Let me hear from you. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. G. MEADE. WASHINGTON, November 9, 1863 7.30 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE: I have seen your dispatches about operations on the Rappahannock on Saturday, and I wish to say, "Well done!" Do the 1500 prisoners reported by General Sedgwick include the 400 taken by General French, or do the whole amount to 1900? A. LINCOLN. ORDER CONCERNING THE EXPORT OF TOBACCO PURCHASED BY FOREIGN NATIONS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, November 10, 1863. In consideration of the peculiar circumstances and pursuant to the comity deemed to be due to friendly powers, any tobacco in the United States belonging to the government either of France, Austria, or any other state with which this country is at peace, and which tobacco was purchased and paid for by such government prior to the 4th day of March, 1861, may be exported from any port of the United States under the supervision and upon the responsibility of naval officers of such governments and in conformity to such regulations as may be presented by the Secretary of State of the United States, and not otherwise. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL SCHOFIELD. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., November 10, 1863. GENERAL SCHOFIELD, Saint Louis, Mo.: The I see a dispatch here from Saint Louis, which is a little difficult for me to understand. It says "General Schofield has refused leave of absence to members in military service to attend the legislature. All such are radical and administration men. election of two Senators from this place on Thursday will probably turn upon this thing." What does this mean? Of course members of the legislation must be allowed to attend its sessions. But how is there a session before the recent election returns are in? And how is it to be at "this place”—and that is Saint Louis? Please inform me. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL SCHOFIELD. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., November 11, 1863. GENERAL SCHOFIELD, Saint Louis, Mo.: I believe the Secretary of War has telegraphed you about members of the legislation. At all events, allow those in the service to attend the session, and Iwe can afterward decide whether they can stay through the entire session. A. LINCOLN. Cipher. TELEGRAM TO HIRAM BARNEY. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., November 11, 1863. HON. HIRAM BARNEY, New York: I would like an interview with you. Can you not come? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO J. MILDERBORGER. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., November 11, 1863. JOHN MILDERBORGER, Peru, Ind. : I cannot comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO E. H. AND E. JAMESON. WAR DEPARtment, WASHINGTON, D. C., November 13, 1863. E. H. and E. JAMESON, Jefferson City, Mo.: Yours saying Brown and Henderson are elected Senators is received. I understand this is one and one. If so it is knocking heads together to some purpose. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL W. S. ROSECRANS. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, November 14, 1863. 12.15 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Cincinnati, Ohio: I have received and considered your dispatch of yesterday. Of the reports you mention, I have not the means of seeing any except your own. Besides this, the publication might be improper in view of the court of inquiry which has been ordered. With every disposition, not merely to do justice, but to oblige you, I feel constrained to say I think the publications better not be made now. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL BURNSIDE. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITY, November 16, 1863. MAJOR-GENERal Burnside, Knoxville, Tenn.: What is the news? TO SECRETARY CHASE. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, November 17, 1863. HON. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. MY DEAR SIR:-I expected to see you here at Cabinet meeting, and to say something about going to Gettysburg. There will be a train to take and return us. The time for starting is not yet fixed, but when it shall be I will notify you. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. ADDRESS AT GETTYSBURG NOVEMBER 19, 1863. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a We have come to great battle-field of that war. dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion— that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |