- Winfield Scott letter to Henry Clay.
Elizabethtown, NJ - 19 July 1848
It is now sixty days since I landed on the Jersey shore, with a Mexican disease upon me, and although obliged to travel and to engage in the most vexatious and disgusting work, I have not had the strength to walk three hundred yards
- Winfield Scott letter to Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.
New York, NY - 9 December 1856
I am much concerned to learn that you think of leaving the army, after acquiring, at an early age, so much distinction in it
- Winfield Scott letter to Gustavus Fox.
Washington, MD - 19 March 1861
I request that you will have the goodness to proceed to Charleston, S. C., and obtain permission, if necessary, to visit Fort Sumter
- Winfield Scott letter to Simon Cameron.
Washington, MD - 9 August 1861
Accordingly, I must beg the President, at the earliest moment, to allow me to be placed on the officers' retired list, and then quietly to lay myself up - probably forever
- Winfield Scott letter to Simon Cameron.
Washington, MD - 12 August 1861
I deeply regret that, notwithstanding my respect for the opinions and wishes of the President, I can not withdraw the letter in question, for the following reasons
- Winfield Scott letter to Simon Cameron.
Washington, MD - 4 October 1861
To suppress irregularity, more conspicuous in Major-General McClellan than in any other officer, I publish the following facts:
