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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., December 17, 1862.
Major-General McCLERNAND, Springfield, Ill.:
Your telegram this movement received. It surprises me, but I
will ascertain and let you know immediately.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.