Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 25,
1863.
MY DEAR NICO:
Grant’s and Wilcox’s despatches are so cheering this morning
that I sent you a cautious dispatch this morning. Hooker (fighting Joe ) (Fightinger
than ever) has done gloriously; carried the north slope of Lookout Mountain and
gobbled a thousand prisoners. Thomas and Sherman have also done all they
attempted, and Grant is to advance to-day along his whole line.
Burnside has sent a courier through to Wilcox and says he is
all right as yet; is not hungry or thirsty, and has not quite begun his share
of the fighting.
Everything looks well.
Don't, in a sudden spasm of good-nature, send any more
people with letters to me requesting
favors from L. I would rather make the tour of a small-pox
hospital.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 128-9; For the whole diary entry see
Tyler Dennett, Editor, Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and
letters of John Hay, p. 127.
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