[mainepatsfan]

The great tragedy of this event was the fact that the soldiers from Indiana didn't even get to keep the cigars!!

[nikos1121]

Similarity of Mclelland and our current commander in chief. Both cowardly blow hards....

[bushpilot1]

This Day in the War of Northern Aggression History September 13th, 1862 The Union Discovers “Lost Order”

Fixed the title.

[MplsSteve]

What I wondered most about is this...

Given that McClellan believed that Lee’s army was larger than his and also (IIRC) that McClellan believed the Lost Order was a forgery, why didn’t he at least take the time to have his cavalry check into whether the info in the Lost Order was accurate?

He didn’t.

And that in itself strikes me as negligence and incompetence. McClellan could have literally ran the Army of Northern Virginia into the Potomac if he had acted correctly.

The Civil War would still have dragged on but not for as long as it did.

[Reo]

Thanks for the reminder, mainepatsfan. Samuel Pittman was my great-grandfather. Some years ago when cleaning out my parents' home we found a shoe box with his name on it stuffed with papers that my mother had carefully saved. I spent some 6 months sorting and transcribing them. My siblings and I then donated the entire collection to the Chapin Library at Williams College in Williamstown, MA, where they are now available for review. The account in today's article is off on one point. Pittman and Chilton had not served together prior to the war. Rather, Pittman had been a bank clerk in Detroit while Chilton had been paymaster for the federal garrison there, so Pittman had become very familiar with Chilton's signature on checks. Pittman's commander, Br. Gen. Alpheus Williams, probably did know Chilton in Detroit prior to the war. In a talk he gave on the Lost Order incident in 1903, Pittman speculated very briefly on the possibilty of espionage involvement. He also did the same in correspondence with Gen E. A. Carmen writing in the 1890's "Could the Union cause have had, after all, a friend at Lee's or Hill's head quarters to thus favor the Union side as by accident?" Makes for interesting speculation.

[Gordon Pym]

The great tragedy of this event was the fact that the soldiers from Indiana didn't even get to keep the cigars!!

Yeah, The brass ordered them destroyed by fire

[SunkenCiv]

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