Colonels Ross and Morris, commanding two of our Connecticut
regiments, came to see me. Each is of opinion that few men will be obtained in
that State under the draft. I fear the subject has not been managed with much
skill, and that it has been done without much consultation or advice. Possibly
one or two members of the Cabinet have run to the War Department and
volunteered their views. I have not.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 382
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