This morning the President said that Dana has continually
been telegraphing of Rosecrans’s anxiety for food; but Thomas now telegraphs
that there is no trouble on that score. I asked what Dana thought about
Rosecrans. He said he agreed that Rosecrans was for the present completely
broken down. The President says he is “confused and stunned like a duck hit on
the head,” ever since Chickamauga. . . .
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 112; For the whole diary entry see
Tyler Dennett, Editor, Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and
letters of John Hay, p. 106-7
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