The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 10, In Two Parts. Part 2, Correspondence, etc. Page: 19
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
March 8, 1862.
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Saint Louis:
The President directs me to inform you that the act of Congress, July
13, 1861, prohibits commercial intercourse with States proclaimed to be
in rebellion (which includes all south of Kentucky and Missouri), except
under license of the President and under rules and regulations pre-
scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. By the President's direction
the Secretary has lately made such rules and regulations, copies of which
are this day sent you by mail. The President desires you to enforce no
rules inconsistent with them, and if any such have been made, that you
will rescind them.
Please acknowledge receipt of this instruction.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
[The same to General D. C. Buell.]
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, March 8, 1862.
S. P. CHASE, Secretary of Treasury, Washington:
The order opening the navigation of the Cumberland is not a com-
mercial measure, but a military ruse, to get steamers into that river
without disclosing the real object. The conduct of Mr. W. P. Mellen
in attempting to thwart an important military movement in order to
exhibit his own authority is very objectionable. If he continues to
interfere, I must ask for his removal.
H. W. HALLECK,
Major- General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, March 8, 1862.
E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War, Washington:
The opening of trade to Nashville was a military ruse, to get steam-
boats up the Cumberland for the movement of troops, without the
enemy's suspecting the object. If sent up empty, the object could not
have been concealed. The regulations made with this intent will of
course give way to those sent by the Secretary of the Treasury.
H. W. HALLECK,
Major-General.
NASHVILLE, TENN., March 8, 1862.
Major-General HALLECK:
Information, which I believe to be reliable, states that Island No. 10
has been abandoned; part of the force gone to New Madrid, where are
four gunboats, and part to Jackson. No force of any consequence at
Memphis. Cotton sent to the interior and sugar and other stores down
the river. Cannonading at New Madrid on the arrival of our troops,
in which the town was wholly or partially destroyed. Force at New
Madrid not great. Five thousand was stated, but may be more.
D. C. BUELL,
Brigadier-General.19
OHAP. XXHI.)
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 10, In Two Parts. Part 2, Correspondence, etc., book, 1884; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth154614/m1/19/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.