Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General George B. McClellan, July 5, 1862 – 9 a.m.

Washington, July 5,1862 9 a.m.

A thousand thanks for the relief your two dispatches, of 12 and 1 p.m. yesterday,* gave me. Be assured the heroism and skill of yourself and officers and men is, and forever will be, appreciated.

If you can hold your present position we shall hive the enemy yet.

A. LINCOLN.
Maj. Gen. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN,
Commanding Army of Potomac.
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* For that of 1 p.m., see “Corespondence, etc,” part III.

SOURCE: 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. 72

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