A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. B, McCLELLAN.

Washington, September 8, 1862. 5 P.M.

Major-general McCLELLAN, Rockville, Maryland: 

How does it look now?

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL D. C. BUELL.

War department, Washington,
September 8, 1862. 7.20 P.M.

General Buell: 

What degree of certainty have you that Bragg, with his command, is not now in the valley of the Shenandoah, Virginia?

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO T. WEBSTER.

Washington, September 9, 1862.

Thomas Webster, Philadelphia: 

Your despatch received, and referred to General Halleck, who must control the questions presented.  While I am not surprised at your anxiety, I do not think you are in any danger.  If half our troops were in Philadelphia, the enemy could take it, because he would not fear to leave the other half in his rear; but with the whole of them here, he dares not leave them in his rear.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. B. McCLELLAN.

War department, Washington city, September 10, 1862. 10.15 Am.

Major-general McCLELLAN, Rockville, Maryland: 

How does it look now?

A. Lincoln.

TO GOVERNOR CURTIN.

War department, Washington, D.C.,

September 11, 1862.

His excellency Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Sir:—­The application made to me by your adjutant general for authority to call out the militia of the State of Pennsylvania has received careful consideration.  It is my anxious desire to afford, as far as possible, the means and power of the Federal Government to protect the State of Pennsylvania from invasion by the rebel forces; and since, in your judgment, the militia of the State are required, and have been called upon by you, to organize for home defense and protection, I sanction the call that you have made, and will receive them into the service and pay of the United States to the extent they can be armed, equipped, and usefully employed.  The arms and equipments now belonging to the General Government will be needed for the troops called out for the national armies, so that arms can only be furnished for the quota of militia furnished by the draft of nine months’ men, heretofore ordered.  But as arms may be supplied by the militia under your call, these, with the 30,000 in your arsenal, will