To-night [Blenker’s] Germans had a torchlight procession in
honor of McC. promotion. I never saw such a scene of strange and wild
magnificence as this night-march was. Afterwards we went over to McCn
and talked about the southern flurry. The President thought this a good time to
feel them. McC. said: “I have not been unmindful of that We will feel them
to-morrow.” The Tycoon and the General were both very jolly over the news.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 52; Tyler Dennett, Lincoln and
the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, p. 34.
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