Friday, April 11, 2014

Brigadier-General Lorenzo Thomas to Edwin M. Stanton, August 16, 1862

FORT MONROE, VA., August 16, 1862.
Hon. E. M. STANTON,  Secretary of War:

I parted with General McClellan yesterday at 3 o'clock p.m. The movement was progressing finely and will be successful. The army is in fine spirits and splendid fighting order, and only wish they may be attacked. No one could have made the movement more skillfully or in less time.

L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 12, Part 3 (Serial No. 18), p. 578-9

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