Tuesday, January 8, 2019

George L. Stearns, August 7, 1862


[Office of John Hopper, New York, New York, August 7, 1862]

I am safely here, and have met General Doubleday. He is rather too lymphatic for a general, but for all that may be the best man to be had. He is yet in doubt as to his course; is afraid that the War Department would not give him the command. I shall probably get useful information and hear some history from him about McClellan and others. If so you shall have it.

SOURCE: Preston Stearns, The Life and Public Services of George Luther Stearns, p. 266

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