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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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re exists in additionpositive evidence that the President was in no wiseinfluenced by the newspaper slander. Upon a let-ter from Mr. Guthrie,1 indicating that the Union 1 I find many of the Unionmen of the State are anxiousthat General Sherman should re-main and lead our advance. Theydo not see the difficulty as it pre-sents itself to me. I supposethat although General Shermanhas been superseded at his ownrequest that it was all the morereadily done because the line ofpolicy for the army assembled inKentucky pressed from Washing-ton was different from that hisjudgment dictated, and because his policy of a line of assault anddefense required more troops thancould be spared without inter-fering with other plans adoptedor cherished by the Commander-in-Chief and higher councils atWashington. In my judgmentthere is but one way for the Gov-ernment to have the services ofGeneral Sherman in Kentucky,and that is to make GeneralBuell a major-general and re-quest General Sherman to reportto him.
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EAST TENNESSEE 65 men of Kentucky were unwilling to lose GeneralShermans presence and services, but that a ques-tion of rank stood in the way, Mr. Lincoln madethe endorsement: If General McClellan thinks itproper to make Buell a major-general, enablingSherman to return to Kentucky, it would ratherplease me. The retirement of General Scott on the first ofNovember, and the elevation of McClellan to thecommand of general-in-chief, brought with it, asusual, many changes in minor commands. Briga-dier-General D. C. Buell, previously chosen byGeneral Anderson for service in Kentucky, wasMcClellans intimate friend; and the new General-in-Chief probably needed no special inducement togive so important a duty to a favorite, who was inaddition an accomplished soldier. His qualitiesas a commander were yet to be developed; likeMcClellan himself, up to the outbreak of the war,he had obtained but little rank. The Departmentof the Ohio was formed on November 9, and Gen-eral Buell assigned to its comm

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