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Sept. 15, Monday, 9.30


A. M., Bolivar.

. . . Just sent you a telegram informing you that we yesterday gained a glorious and complete victory; every moment adds to its importance. I am pushing everything after them with the greatest rapidity, and expect to gain great results. I thank God most humbly for His great mercy. How glad I am for my country that it is delivered from immediate peril! I am about starting with the pursuit and must close this. . . . If I can believe one-tenth of what is reported, God has seldom given an army a greater victory than this. . . .

Telegram — Near Sharpsburg, Sept. 16, 1862, 7 A. M.--Have reached thus far, and have no doubt delivered Pennsylvania and Maryland. Army in excellent spirits.

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