Posted on 09/28/2021 5:11:57 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Why, once this War is won, the country will probably put up a monument to him. How does the McClellan Monument sound?
Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, October 3, 1861 (“We are evidently at the end of our campaign in this direction for this season.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_11.html
Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, October 3, 1861 (“Who will get into a better place, is the question. We all want to go to Washington or to Kentucky or Missouri.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis.html
Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: October 3, 1861 (“[Col. Andrew Jackson Babcock] receives orders to proceed the following day to Fort Holt, Kentucky, with his regiment, and relieve the Seventeenth Illinois.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_78.html
Diary of Josephine Shaw, October 3, 1861 (“We have no battle yet, although September has passed, the month in which they were to take place.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/diary-of-josephine-shaw-lowell-october.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 3, 1861 (“The President not having taken any steps in the matter, I have no alternative but to execute the order of the Secretary.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october-3.html
I wouldn't be surprised if someone carved his likeness onto a mountain in Dakota Territory.
Major Wilder Dwight: October 4, 1861 (Officer of the Day Dwight writes to fill the time before he makes midnight rounds.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/major-wilder-dwight-october-4-1861.html
Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: October 4, 1861 (Happy birthday, Maj. Hayes.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes_15.html
Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: October 4, 1861 (“At 10 A, M., we strike our tents; 12 M., we march in a thunder storm to the river, and embark on the steamer Aleck Scott.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_52.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 4, 1861 (Jones denies applications for enemy aliens to leave the Confederacy w/o having their names published.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october-4.html
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