WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 1862
– 4.30 p.m.
Governor CURTIN, Harrisburg:
Your telegram just received. We have no troops in Washington
or Baltimore to send to Harrisburg, it being supposed that the best defense of
Harrisburg is to strengthen the force now marching against the enemy under
General McClellan.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
19, Part 2 (Serial No. 28), p. 217
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