A long hiatus! The nights have been too busy for jottings.
. . . . We went over to Seward’s, found him comfortably
slippered, and after talking about consular nuisances, went over to McClellan’s.
Everything seems going right. Discipline is perfecting. The Dry Tortugas have
squelched mutiny. The drills and reviews keep the men alive. Hunter is soon to go
to Illinois as they need a head. At first he wanted to take McDowell but Scott
objected. Regiments are constantly coming in, and arms for them. McClellan is
growing jolly. Seward is in better humor than I have lately seen him.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 40; Tyler Dennett, Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay,
p. 25.
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