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Headquarters Army of the Potomac.
Please say a kind word to my army, that I can repeat to them in general orders, in regard to their conduct at Yorktown, Williamsburgh, West Point, Hanover Court-House, and on the Chickahominy, as well as in regard to the (7) seven days, and the recent retreat.
No one has ever said anything to cheer them but myself. Say nothing about me, merely give my men and officers credit for what they have done. It will do you much good, and will strengthen you much with them if you issue a handsome order to them in regard to what they have accomplished. They deserve it.
G. B. McClellan,
Major-General.
Maj.-Gen. Halleck,
Comd'g U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.
- george mcclellan
- Source:
- General McClellan and the Conduct of the War, William Henry Hurlbert, 1913
