Abraham Lincoln
The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln-VOL. VI (Chap. 2.237)
Telegram To Secretary Stanton.

War Department, Washington, September 6, 1863. 6 P.M.

HON. SECRETARY OF WAR, Bedford, Pa.:

Burnside has Kingston and Knoxville, and drove the enemy across the river at Loudon, the enemy destroying the bridge there; captured some stores and one or two trains; very little fighting; few wounded and none killed. No other news of consequence.

A. LINCOLN.