Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 26,
1863.
MY DEAR NICOLAY:
The newspapers of this morning have told you all you want to
know, and so I send you no telegram. The news is glorious. Nature was against
us, but we won in her spite. Had not the rapid current and drift swept away
Hooker’s pontoons, he would have utterly destroyed them.
Grant will immediately send a column to relieve Burnside,
and if possible destroy Longstreet.
The President is sick in bed. Bilious.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 129-30; For the whole diary entry
see Tyler Dennett, Editor, Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and
letters of John Hay, p. 127-8.
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