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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
McClellan for peace.
[from the Baltimore sun, January 11, 1904.]
For the restoration of the Union against the political Horde at Washington.
[The following is of interest in connection with the preceding articles.—Ed.]
The following communication addressed to a gentleman in Baltimore, makes a very interesting contribution to the political history of the Civil War to the effect that General McClellan in 1862 sought an interview with General Lee with the supposed purpose of making peace over the heads of the governments at Washington and Richmond:
Bishop's house, 222 east Harris street, Savannah, Ga., January 3, 1904.
My dear friend,—Your letter of the 1st instant to hand.
My recollection of the conversation to which you refer is clear.
General Longstreet told me more than once that immediately after the battle at Sharpsburg, or Antietam, while he was in General Lee's tent, the General handed him a letter which he had just received from General McClellan, the comm