Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General George B. McClellan, May 1, 1862

EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, May 1, 1862.
Major-General McCLELLAN:

Your call for Parrott guns from Washington alarms me, chiefly because it argues indefinite procrastination. Is anything to be done?

A. LINCOLN.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 11, Part 3 (Serial No. 14), p. 130

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