Gen. Halleck confers with President about Gen. McClellan's plans and inactivity. Halleck to McClellan, 21 October 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln requests Gen. Grant, Mil. Gov. Johnson, and all having military, naval, and civil authority under U.S. within state of Tennessee to aid Thomas R. Smith, citizen of Tennessee, in elections of members to Congress, and perhaps U.S. senators, state officers, and legislature. Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson and Others, 21 October 1862, CW, 5:470-71.