CAMP NEAR NEW BRIDGE,
May 26, 1862
– 7.30 p.m.
Have arranged to carry out your last orders. We are quietly
closing in upon the enemy preparatory to the last struggle. Situated as I am, I
feel forced to take every possible precaution against disaster and to secure my
flanks against the probably superior force in front of me. My arrangements for
to-morrow are very important, and, if successful, will leave me free to strike
on the return of the force detached.
GEO. B. McCLELLAN,
Major-General.
His Excellency ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President.
SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
11, Part 1 (Serial No. 12), p. 33
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