Monday, July 20, 2015

Francis Lieber to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, March 20, 1864

New York, March 20, 1864.

. . . You have observed that the Fremont men have held their first meeting. Did I tell you that I was called upon to become president of the Fremont Campaign Club; and, if I should decline, that I would at least preside at the first meeting, which was held on March 18 in the Cooper Institute? It would have been a fine celebration of my birthday had I done so! I shall copy the letter which I wrote in reply. It will show you what I think about it. . . . Are you going to move on the everlasting Potomac? . . .

SOURCE: Thomas Sergeant Perry, Editor, The Life and Letters of Francis Lieber, p. 343

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