Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Major General George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, March 9, 1862

HALL'S HILL, VA., March 9, 1862.

The SECRETARY OF WAR:

In the arrangements for the advance of to-morrow it is impossible to carry into effect the arrangements for the formation of army corps. I am obliged to take groups as I find them and to move them by divisions· I respectfully ask a suspension of the order directing it till the present movement be over.

 GEO. B. McCLELLAN,
 Major-General.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 5 (Serial No. 5), p. 739

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