In camp at
Warrenton. Gen. McClellan left the army to-day, and Gen. Burnside was his
successor. He reviewed the troops before he left, and we fired a salute of
thirteen guns. Gen. McClellan was the father of the Army of the Potomac.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second
Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters and the Third Light
Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 269
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