Selected Correspondance of Abraham Lincoln 1863 Letter To Governor Seymour
by Abraham Lincoln
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
August 27. 1863.
HIS EXCELLENCY HORATIO SEYMOUR,
Governor of New York:
Yours of the 21st, with exhibits, was received on the 24th.
In the midst of pressing duties I have been unable to answer it
sooner. In the meantime the Provost Marshal-General has had access
to yours, and has addressed a communication in relation to it to the
Secretary of War, a copy of which communication I herewith enclose to
you.
Independently of this, I addressed a letter on the same subject to
the Secretary of War, a copy of which I also enclose to you. The
Secretary has sent my letter to the Provost-Marshal General, with
direction that he adopt and follow the course therein pointed out.
It will, of course, overrule any conflicting view of the
Provost-Marshal-General, if there be such.
Yours very truly,
A. LINCOLN.
P. S.-I do not mean to say that if the Provost-Marshal-General can
find it practicable to give credits by subdistricts, I overrule him
in that. On the contrary, I shall be glad of it; but I will not take
the risk of over-burdening him by ordering him to do it. A. L.
