No events of much importance to-day. — A Cabinet meeting was
held and a good deal of talk took place, but no results. — Blair sent me his
paper on Colonization to which he referred in our long talk of yesterday. — A
nice letter from my friend Mrs. Eastman. — Spent a few moments at the War
Department — telegram came that the enemy has been shelling McClellan's
position from Point Coggin. — Wrote to Genl. Pope and Genl. Butler, touching,
in both letters, the Slavery question. — Called on Genl. Halleck in the
evening, and talked a good while with him. Judged it prudent not to say much of
the war he spoke of Buell as slow but safe; of Grant, as a good general and
brave in battle, but careless of his command; of Thomas he spoke very highly.
SOURCE: Annual Report of the American Historical
Association for the Year 1902, Vol. 2, p. 51-2
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