{"id":68954,"date":"2021-10-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=68954"},"modified":"2021-10-06T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:06:35","slug":"the-letters-of-samuel-ryan-curtis-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-letters-of-samuel-ryan-curtis-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln to Curtis: &#8220;I am greatly perplexed about Gen: Fremont&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\">Washington, D.C.<br \/>\nOct. 7. 1861<\/p>\n<p>Brig: Genl. S. R. Curtis<\/p>\n<p>My dear Sir.<\/p>\n<p>Without prejudice, and looking to nothing but justice, and the public interest, I am greatly perplexed about Gen: Fremont: In your position, you can not but have a correct judgment in the case; and I beseech you to answer Gen. Cameron, when he hands you this, \u201cOught Gen: Fremont to be relieved from, or retained in his present command?\u201d It shall be entirely confidential; but you can perceive how indispensable it is to justice &amp; the public service, that I should have, an intelligent unprejudiced, and judicious opinion from some professional Military man on the spot, to assist me in the case. Yours very truly<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">A. LINCOLN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. Oct. 7. 1861 Brig: Genl. S. R. Curtis My dear Sir. Without prejudice, and looking to nothing but justice, and the public interest, I am greatly perplexed about Gen: Fremont: In your position, you can not but have a correct judgment in the case; and I beseech you to answer Gen. Cameron, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-letters-of-samuel-ryan-curtis"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Abraham-Lincoln.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117152,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68954\/revisions\/117152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}