The term of one hundred days for which volunteers from the States of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin volunteered, under the call of their respective governors, in the months of May and June, to aid in the campaign of General Sherman, having expired; the President directs an official acknowledgment to be made of their patriotic service.  It was their good fortune to render efficient service in the brilliant operations in the Southwest and to contribute to the victories of the national arms over the rebel forces in Georgia under command of Johnston and Hood.  On all occasions and in every service to which they were assigned their duty as patriotic volunteers was performed with alacrity and courage, for which they are entitled to and are hereby tendered the national thanks through the governors of their respective States.

The Secretary of War is directed to transmit a copy of this order to the governors of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin and to cause a certificate of their honorable service to be delivered to the officers and soldiers of the States above named who recently served in the military force of the United States as volunteers for one hundred days.

A. Lincoln.

TO GENERAL U.S.  GRANT.

Executive Mansion, Washington,
October 5, 1864

Lieutenant-general grant: 

I inclose you a copy of a correspondence in regard to a contemplated exchange of naval prisoners through your lines, and not very distant from your headquarters.  It only came to the knowledge of the War Department and of myself yesterday, and it gives us some uneasiness.  I therefore send it to you with the statement that, as the numbers to be exchanged under it are small, and so much has already been done to effect the exchange, I hope you may find it consistent to let it go forward under the general supervision of General Butler, and particularly in reference to the points he holds vital in exchanges.  Still, you are at liberty to arrest the whole operation if in your judgment the public good requires it.

Yours truly,

A. Lincoln.

INDORSEMENT ON A MEMORANDUM BY GENERAL McDOWELL, OCTOBER 7, 1864

I well remember the meetings herein narrated.  See nothing for me to object to in the narrative as being made by General McDowell, except the phrase attributed to me “of the Jacobinism of Congress,”

[This memorandum describes the private discussions that preceded the transfer of McClellan’s army from the Potomac, where it had confronted the Confederates at Manassas.  See H. J. Raymond:  Life of Lincoln, p. 772]

which phrase I do not remember using literally or in substance, and which I wish not to be published in any event.

A. Lincoln.

TO H. W. HOFFMAN.