Abraham Lincoln.

By the President
William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Telegram to commander Blake. 
Executive, Mansion, February 19, 1864.

Commander George S. Blake,
Commandant Naval Academy, Newport, R. I.: 

I desire the case of Midshipman C. Lyon re-examined and if not clearly inconsistent I shall be much obliged to have the recommendation changed.

A. Lincoln.

Telegram from Warren Jordan. 
Nashville, February 20, 1864.

Hon.  W. H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.: 

In county and State elections, must citizens of Tennessee take the oath prescribed by Governor Johnson, or will the President’s oath of amnesty entitle them to vote?  I have been appointed to hold the March election in Cheatham County, and wish to act understandingly.

Warren Jordan.

Washington, February 20, 1864.

Warren Jordan, Nashville: 

In county elections you had better stand by Governor Johnson’s plan; otherwise you will have conflict and confusion.  I have seen his plan.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL ROSECRANS.

War department,
Washington, D. C., February 22, 1864.

Major-general Rosecrans, Saint Louis, Mo.: 

Colonel Sanderson will be ordered to you to-day, a mere omission that it was not done before.  The other questions in your despatch I am not yet prepared to answer.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL STEELE.

War department,
Washington, D. C., February 22, 1864.

Major-general Steele, Little Rock, Ark.: 

Yours of yesterday received.  Your conference with citizens approved. 
Let the election be on the 14th of March as they agreed.

A. Lincoln.

TO GENERAL F. STEELE.

War department,
Washington, February 25, 1864.

Major-general Steele, Little Rock, Arkansas: 

General Sickles is not going to Arkansas.  He probably will make a tour down the Mississippi and home by the gulf and ocean, but he will not meddle in your affairs.

At one time I did intend to have him call on you and explain more fully than I could do by letter or telegraph, so as to avoid a difficulty coming of my having made a plan here, while the convention made one there, for reorganizing Arkansas; but even his doing that has been given up for more than two weeks.  Please show this to Governor Murphy to save me telegraphing him.