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not send us assistance. The men in buckram had grown into a host. Then he pleads with Stanton to know if Governor Yates of Illinois cannot send a force to Paducah, complains that he has over and over again asked for reinforcements from General Buell and adds that all the forces in Ohio and Indiana should be sent to Kentucky. President Lincoln responds calmly that General Buell's position is such that he cannot deplete his force; and then he drolly telegraphs General Halleck, then at Tuscumbia, Ala.: They are having a stampede in Kentucky. Please look to it. Thus it went on until General Morgan took his leave, and then on the 20th, General Boyle telegraphs Buell, I do not believe now that he had over 1,000 or 1,200 men. They were again veritable men in buckram. When Morgan is well out of reach, he telegraphs General Buell on the 23d, I shall issue orders that guerrillas and armed squads are to be shot and not taken prisoners. I shall seize horses of secessionists to mount my