Yesterday it was two months since the Battle of Bull Run and
we have had no general action yet. . . .
Gen. Fremont's failing appears to be a desire to act independently. It was for
that he was court-martialled, and for that that Lincoln blamed him in issuing
his proclamation. It is a very natural desire in a true lover of his country to
take the way he thinks best to save her, but a subordinate officer should obey
the orders of the Commander-in-Chief.
SOURCE: William Rhinelander Stewart, The
Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, p. 19
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