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Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., Chapter 3 Gen. McClellan June 21 July 21 , 1861
Chapter 3: private letters of Gen. McClellan to his wife. [June 21 to July 21, 1861.]
Marietta, June 21, 1861.
I must snatch a few moments to write you. We got off at 11.30 yesterday morning, and had a continual ovation all along the road.
At every station where we stopped crowds had assembled to see the young general gray-headed old men and women, mothers holding up their children to take my hand, girls, boys, all sorts, cheering and crying, God bless you!
I never went through such a scene in my life, and never expect to go through such another one.
You would have been surprised at the excitement.
At Chillicothe the ladies had prepared a dinner, and I had to be trotted through.
They gave me about twenty beautiful bouquets and almost killed me with kindness.
The trouble will be to fill their expectations, they seem to be so high.
I could hear them say, He is our own general ; Look at him, how young he is ; He will thrash them ; He'll do, etc., etc. ad infinitum. . . .