REQUEST TO SUGGEST NAME FOR A BABY

Telegram to C. M. Smith.

Washington, D. C., September 18, 1863.

C.M.  Smith, Esq., Springfield, Ill.: 

Why not name him for the general you fancy most?  This is my suggestion.

A. LINCOLN

TELEGRAM TO MRS. ARMSTRONG.

Washington, September 18, 1863.

Mrs. Hannah Armstrong, Petersburg, Ill.: 

I have just ordered the discharge of your boy William, as you say, now at Louisville, Ky.

A. Lincoln.

To governor Johnson. 
(Private.)
Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C.,
September 19.1863.

Hon.  Andrew Johnson.

My dear sir:—­Herewith I send you a paper, substantially the same as the one drawn up by yourself and mentioned in your despatch, but slightly changed in two particulars:  First, yours was so drawn as that I authorized you to carry into effect the fourth section, etc., whereas I so modify it as to authorize you to so act as to require the United States to carry into effect that section.

Secondly, you had a clause committing me in some sort to the State constitution of Tennessee, which I feared might embarrass you in making a new constitution, if you desire; so I dropped that clause.

Yours very truly,

A. Lincoln.

[Inclosure.]

Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C.,

September 19, 1863.

Hon.  Andrew Johnson,
Military Governor of Tennessee: 

In addition to the matters contained in the orders and instructions given you by the Secretary of War, you are hereby authorized to exercise such powers as may be necessary and proper to enable the loyal people of Tennessee to present such a republican form of State government as will entitle the State to the guaranty of the United States therefor, and to be protected under such State government by the United States against invasion and domestic violence, all according to the fourth Section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

MILITARY STRATEGY

To general H. W. Halleck
executive Mansion, Washington D.C. 
September 19, 1863.

Major-general Halleck: 

By General Meade’s despatch to you of yesterday it appears that he desires your views and those of the government as to whether he shall advance upon the enemy.  I am not prepared to order, or even advise, an advance in this case, wherein I know so little of particulars, and wherein he, in the field, thinks the risk is so great and the promise of advantage so small.