Selected Correspondance of Abraham Lincoln 1863 Telegram To General Butterfield
by Abraham Lincoln
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D.C., June 4, 1863.
MAJOR-GENERAL BUTTERFIELD:
The news you send me from the Richmond Sentinel of the 3d must be
greatly if not wholly incorrect. The Thursday mentioned was the
28th, and we have despatches here directly from Vicksburg of the
28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st; and, while they speak of the siege
progressing, they speak of no assault or general fighting whatever,
and in fact they so speak as to almost exclude the idea that there
can have been any since Monday the 25th, which was not very heavy.
Neither do they mention any demand made by Grant upon Pemberton for a
surrender. They speak of our troops as being in good health,
condition, and spirits. Some of them do say that Banks has Port
Hudson invested.
