NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 19, 1863,
VIA CAIRO, ILL., June 23.
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,
General-in- Chief:
I have found it
necessary to relieve Major-General McClernand, particularly at this time, for
his publication of a congratulatory address calculated to create dissension and
ill-feeling in the army.* I should have relieved him long since for general
unfitness for his position. Major-General Ord is appointed to his place,
subject to the approval of the President.
U.S. GRANT,
Major-General, Commanding.
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* See Dana
to Stanton, June 19, p. 102; McClernand to Halleck and Stanton, June 27,
pp. 165, 166
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. 43
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