Letter from Edwin McMasters Stanton to Alexander Hays, September 29, 1862
written by Edwin McMasters Stanton, 1814-1869 (1862); edited by George Thornton Fleming and Gilbert A. Hays; in Life and Letters of Alexander Hays, Brevet Colonel United States Army, Brigadier General and Brevet Major General United States Volunteers (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately Published, 1919), 305-306