The President told me this morning that Rosecrans was to be
removed from command of the Army at Chattanooga. Thomas is to take his original
army and Grant to command the whole force including Hooker’s and Burnside’s
reinforcements. He says Rosecrans has seemed to lose spirit and nerve since the
battle of Chickamauga.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 110; For the whole diary entry see
Tyler Dennett, Editor, Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and
letters of John Hay, p. 102.
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