Selected Correspondance of Abraham Lincoln 1863 Telegram To General R. C. Schenck
by Abraham Lincoln
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, October 21, 1863.2.45
MAJOR-GENERAL SCHENCK, Baltimore, Md.:
A delegation is here saying that our armed colored troops are at
many, if not all, the landings on the Patuxent River, and by their
presence with arms in their hands are frightening quiet people and
producing great confusion. Have they been sent there by any order,
and if so, for what reason?
