Executive Mansion
Washington, January 28, 1864. 
Major-general Halleck: 

Some citizens of Missouri, vicinity of Kansas City, are apprehensive that there is special danger of renewed troubles in that neighborhood, and thence on the route toward New Mexico.  I am not impressed that the danger is very great or imminent, but I will thank you to give Generals Rosecrans and Curtis, respectively, such orders as may turn their attention thereto and prevent as far as possible the apprehended disturbance.

Yours truly,

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL SICKLES.

Executive Mansion,
Washington, January 29, 1864.

Major-general Sickles, New York: 

Could you, without it being inconvenient or disagreeable to yourself, immediately take a trip to Arkansas for me?

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR BRAMLETTE.

Executive Mansion,
Washington, D. C., January 31, 1864.

Governor Bramlette, Frankfort, Ky.: 

General Boyle’s resignation is accepted, so that your Excellency can give him the appointment proposed.

A. Lincoln.

COLONIZATION EXPERIMENT

Order to secretary Stanton.

Executive Mansion,
February 1, 1864

Hon.  Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War.

Sir:-You are directed to have a transport (either a steam or sailing vessel, as may be deemed proper by the Quartermaster-General) sent to the colored colony established by the United States at the island of Vache, on the coast of San Domingo, to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return.  You will have the transport furnished with suitable supplies for that purpose, and detail an officer of the Quartermaster’s Department, who, under special instructions to be given, shall have charge of the business.  The colonists will be brought to Washington, unless otherwise hereafter directed, and be employed and provided for at the camps for colored persons around that city.  Those only will be brought from the island who desire to return, and their effects will be brought with them.

Abraham Lincoln.

ORDER FOR A DRAFT OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN.

Executive Mansion,
February 1, 1864.

Ordered, That a draft of five hundred thousand (500,000) men, to serve for three years or during the war, be made on the tenth (10th) day of March next, for the military service of the United States, crediting and deducting therefrom so many as may have been enlisted or drafted into the service prior to the first (1st) day of March, and not before credited.