Washington City, October 24 [25?]. 1862
Major General McCLELLAN
I have just read your dispatch about sore tongued and fatigued
horses. Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your
army have done since the battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
A. LINCOLN
SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 19, Part
2 (Serial No. 28), p. 485; Roy P. Basler, editor, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,
Volume 5, p. 474.
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