Friday, April 4, 2014

Major-General George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, June 26, 1862 – 9 p.m.

PORTER'S HEADQUARTERS,
June 26, 1862--9 p.m.
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:

The firing has nearly ceased. I have nearly everything on the way – impediments on the other side of the Chickahominy – and hope to be ready for anything to-morrow.

Please see that Commodore Goldsborough complies promptly with my request. Victory of to-day complete and against great odds.

I almost begin to think we are invincible.
GEO. B. McCLELLAN,
Major-General, Commanding.


SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 11, Part 3 (Serial No. 14), p. 260

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