Saturday, April 5, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General Irvin McDowell, May 24, 1862

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D.C., May 24, 1862 8 p.m.
Major-General McDOWELL:

I am highly gratified by your alacrity in obeying my order. The change was as painful to me as it can possibly be to you or to any one.

Everything now depends upon the celerity and vigor of your movement.

A. LINCOLN.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 12, Part 3 (Serial No. 18), p. 220

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