. Complete works of Abraham Lincoln. above. We have about 20,000of McDowells force moving back to the vicinityof Front Royal, and General Fremont, who wasat Franklin, is moving to Harrisonburg; boththese movements intended to get in the enemysrear. One more of McDowells brigades is orderedthrough here to Harpers Ferry; the rest of hisforce remains for the present at are sending such regiments and dribs fromhere and Baltimore as we can spare to HarpersFerry, supplying their places in some sort bycalling in militia from the adjacent States. Wealso have eighteen cannon on the ro
. Complete works of Abraham Lincoln. above. We have about 20,000of McDowells force moving back to the vicinityof Front Royal, and General Fremont, who wasat Franklin, is moving to Harrisonburg; boththese movements intended to get in the enemysrear. One more of McDowells brigades is orderedthrough here to Harpers Ferry; the rest of hisforce remains for the present at are sending such regiments and dribs fromhere and Baltimore as we can spare to HarpersFerry, supplying their places in some sort bycalling in militia from the adjacent States. Wealso have eighteen cannon on the road to Har-pers Ferry, of which arm there is not a singleone yet at that point. This is now our situation. If McDowells force was now beyond our r88 Abraham Lincoln [May 25 reach, we should be utterly helpless. Appre-hension of something like this, and no un-willingness to sustain you, has always been myreason for withholding McDowells force fromyou. Please understand this, and do the bestyou can with the force you have. A. s to S-h if cs ^o Si 1862] Message to Congress 189 Message to Congress, May 26, 1862 f § ~\0 the Senate and House of Representa-I tives: The insurrection which is yet -*- existing in the United States and aimsat the overthrow of the Federal Constitutionand the Union, was clandestinely preparedduring the winter of i860 and 1861, and as-sumed an open organization in the form of atreasonable provisional government at Mont-gomery, in Alabama, on the 18th day of Feb-ruary, 1861. On the 12th day of April, 1861,the insurgents committed the flagrant act ofcivil war by the bombardment and capture ofFort Sumter, which cut off the hope of immedi-ate conciliation. Immediately afterward all theroads and avenues to this city were obstructed,and the capital was put into the condition of asiege. The mails in every direction werestopped and the lines of telegraph cut off by theinsurgents, and military and naval forces whichhad been called out by the government for
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