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To Secretary Stanton. Executive Mansion Washington, December 31, 1863. HON. SECRETARY OF WAR. SIR:—Please fix up the department to which Curtis is to go, without waiting to wind up the Missouri matter. Lane is very anxious to have Fort Smith in it, and I am willing, unless there be decided military reasons to the contrary, in which case of course, I am not for it. It will oblige me to have the Curtis department fixed at once. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN.