Tuesday, December 7, 2021

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

HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS,        
June 18, 1863.
Major-General GRANT:

I have just returned. The newspaper slip is a correct copy of my congratulatory order No. 72. I am prepared to maintain its statements. I regret that my adjutant did not send you a copy promptly as he ought, and I thought he had.

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. 103

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