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Telegram To General Rosecrans. Executive Mansion, Washington, January 5. 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL W. S. ROSECRANS, Murfreesborough, Tenn.: Your despatch announcing retreat of enemy has just reached here. God bless you and all with you! Please tender to all, and accept for yourself, the nation's gratitude for your and their sk**, endurance, and dauntless courage. A. LINCOLN.