To: bnelson44
Doesn’t say to whom the original note was addressed, but I assume it was MG Halleck.
4 posted on
06/07/2007 3:33:46 PM PDT by
CatoRenasci
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To: CatoRenasci
To: CatoRenasci
I assume it was MG Halleck.
You assume right, Lincoln wrote the note to Halleck, and he telegraphed it to Meade. In the official records their is a long list of telegraphs back and forth between the two over the days following Gettysburg.
51 posted on
06/09/2007 5:24:29 AM PDT by
smug
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