Abraham Lincoln - The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln-VOL. VI (Chap. 2.270) lyrics

Mrs. Lincoln's Rebel Brother-In-Law k**ed Telegram To Mrs. Lincoln. WAR DEPARTMENT, SEPTEMBER 24, 1863 MRS. A. LINCOLN, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York: We now have a tolerably accurate summing up of the late battle between Rosecrans and Braag. The result is that we are worsted, if at all, only in the fact that we, after the main fighting was over, yielded the ground, thus leaving considerable of our artillery and wounded to fall into the enemy's hands., for which we got nothing in turn. We lost in general officers one k**ed and three or four wounded, all brigadiers, while, according to the rebel accounts which we have, they lost six k**ed and eight wounded: of the k**ed one major-general and five brigadiers including your brother-in-law, Helm; and of the wounded three major-generals and five brigadiers. This list may be reduced two in number by corrections of confusion in names. At 11.40 A.M. yesterday General Rosecrans telegraphed from Chattanooga: "We hold this point, and I cannot be dislodged except by very superior numbers and after a great battle." A despatch leaving there after night yesterday says, "No fight to-day." A. LINCOLN.