Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Major-General John A. McClernand to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, June 18, 1863

BATTLE-FIELD, NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS.,
June 18, 1863.
Maj. Gen. U.S. GRANT,
        Commanding Department of the Tennessee:

Your order, relieving me and assigning Major-General Ord to the command of the Thirteenth Army Corps, is received. Having been appointed by the President to the command of that corps, under a definite act of Congress, I might justly challenge your authority in the premises, but forbear to do so at present. I am quite willing that any statement of fact in my congratulatory [order] to the Thirteenth Army Corps, to which you think just exception may be taken, should be made the subject of investigation, not doubting the result.

Your obedient servant,
JOHN A. McCLERNAND,        
Major-general.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 24, Part 1 (Serial No. 36), p. 166

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