WAR DEPARTMENT,
November 15, 1862 - 1.40 p. m.
Major-General MCCLERNAND, Springfield, Ill.:
Your several telegrams have been received, and, so far as
answer is required, will be answered by the general-in-chief,
to whom they have
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been referred. General Frank Blair will be attached to your
expedition, and ordered to Helena, that being designated as
one point of concentration. The troops sent to Helena are not
to be withdrawn from your command, but are only sent there
temporarily for organization, as at Memphis.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.