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e perpendicular to one joining Bowling Green and Columbus were suggested by General Buell. For the records show that as early as November of the preceding year, Buell had proposed to General McClellan to move around the right flank of the rebels at Bowling Green, and advance on Nashville, while supplies and troops from Halleck should move up the Cumberland, guarded by the fleet. General McClellan urged cooperation on Halleck, who delayed answering dispatches for some time. Finally, on January 3d, at the request of President Lincoln, General Buell wrote General Halleck, setting forth most of the ideas that Halleck afterward submitted as his own to McClellan, and which are given above in the letter dated January 20th. The records give a connected history of the discussion at this time between the authorities at Washington, and Generals Buell and Halleck. Washington, D. C., December 31, 1861. General Buell, Louisville, Ky. General McClellan is sick. Are General Halleck