[Washington, 14 January 1862]
. . . The
President made an item of news yesterday for the country by appointing Edwin M.
Stanton of Pa Secretary of war in place of Simon Cameron whom he sends as
Minister to Russia. Cassius M. Clay of
Kentucky, now holding that place will come home and take a generalship in the
army. Quite a little shuffle all round.
So far as the
Secretaryship of War is concerned I think the change a very important and much
needed one. I don’t know Mr. Stanton
personally but he is represented as being an able and efficient man, and I
shall certainly look for very great reforms in the war department. So far the Department has substantially taken
care of itself. . . .
SOURCE: Michael
Burlingame, Editor, With Lincoln
in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay,
1860-1865, p. 66
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