To-night Gen. Burnside came up with me from Willard's to see
the President. They talked about the
opening campaign more than anything else. . . . He gave some interesting
reminiscences of the siege of Knoxville (Tad laughing enormously whenever he
saw his father's eye twinkle, though not seeing clearly why).
Burnside and Sigel are the only ones in motion in accordance
with the Order for a general movement on the 23d.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 182-3; Michael Burlingame and John R.
Turner Ettlinger, Editors, Inside Lincoln’s White House,: the complete Civil
War Diary of John Hay, p. 188.
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