Letter to James C. Conkling
08/25/1863
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I thank you, Mr. Train, for your kindness in presenting me with this truly elegant and highly creditable specimen of the handiwork of the me...
It displays a perfection of workmanship which I really wish I had time to acknowledge in more fitting words.
Leave such force at Manassas Junction as shall make it entirely certain that the enemy shall not repossess himself of that position and line...
With this idea, gentlemen, I must leave you for my business duties.