FRANKFORT, KY., June 11, 1863.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

President of the United States:

The public interest will be greatly promoted, and the peace and quiet of the State will be secured, by adding to the Department of the Ohio, under the command of General Burnside, all that part of Kentucky lying south and west of the Tennessee, which is now in General Grant’s department. I most earnestly desire that this change shall be made.

JAS. F. ROBINSON,

Governor of Kentucky.

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LEXINGTON, KY., June 11, 1863.

General HARTSUFF:

Yours received. I have shown it to General Burnside, who directs me to say that he is perfectly satisfied with Carter’s operations, he having driven the enemy 25 miles from the river; that he does not design any movement more aggressive than this just now on the part of Carter. This he reported to me before the arrival of your telegram, as well as since.

Sanders’ expedition left Somerset yesterday morning for Mount Vernon, and will be pushed over with all possible dispatch.

S.D. STURGIS,

Brigadier-General.