Letter signed, with nine lines in autograph : Washington, D. C., to William Pitt Fessenden, 1863 Jun. 2.

Mentioning a meeting with President Lincoln in which the latter expressed full confidence in Grant and Hooker, "but the great want of men, and the approach of the warm season occasions much solicitude"; adding "While I was with the President Mr. Senator Sumner obtained authority for General Fremont to raise a large number of colored troops, on the understanding that when raised he would be assigned to a separate Department"; writing that support in the House for Schuyler Colfax as Speaker seems to be gaining, "and the opposition to Etheridge is steady and bitter."