HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF
THE POTOMAC,
Camp Winfield Scott,
April 18, 1862 – 11.30 p.m.
His Excellency A. LINCOLN,
President:
If compatible with your impressions as to the security of
the capital, and not interfering with operations of which I am ignorant, I
would be glad to have McCall's division so as to be enabled to make a strong
attack upon West Point to turn position of the enemy. After all that I have
heard of things which have occurred since I left Washington and before, I would
prefer that General McDowell should not again be assigned to duty with me.
G. B. McCLELLAN,
Major-General,
Commanding.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
51, Part 1 (Serial No. 107), p. 578
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