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December 28, 1860 - Lieutenant Colonel George Lay to President James Buchanan

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Union Correspondence, etc.

[Memorandum.]

The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 28, 1860.

The following message was delivered by Lieutenant-Colonel Lay, aide-de-camp, from the General-in-Chief to the President of the United States, in person about 3 1/2 p.m., December 27:

Since the formal order, unaccompanied by special instructions, assigning Major Anderson to the command of Fort Moultrie, no order, intimation, suggestion or communication for his government and guidance has gone to that officer, or any of his subordinates, from the Headquarters of the Army; nor have any reports or communications been addressed to the General-in-Chief from Fort Moultrie later than a letter written by Major Anderson, almost immediately after his arrival in Charleston Harbor, reporting the then state of the work.

G.W. LAY,
Lieutenant-Colonel, A.D.C.

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