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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e of moving. McCalls division has nearlyor quite reached you by now. This, with what you getfrom General Wools old command, and the new regi-ments sent you, must give you an increase, since the latebattles, of over twenty thousand. Doubtless the battles,and other causes, have decreased you half as much in thesame time; but then the enemy have lost as many in thesame way. I believe I would come and see you were itnot that I fear my presence might divert you and thearmy from more important matters. From this it will be seen that McClellan had noright to delay operations an hour after McCallsarrival from any pretended expectation of the im-mediate coming of McDowell; and, indeed, headmits in his reportx that as early as the 7th of 1 As I did not think it probable going dispatch (of June 7) that I that any reinforcements would should be ready to move when be sent me in time for the advance General McCalls division joined on Richmond, I stated in the fore- me.—W.R. Vol. XL, Part I.,p.46.
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cknkkal samiki. p. hkintzklman. THE SEVEN DAYS BATTLES 417 June he had given up any such expectation. With ch. xxiii.no reason, therefore, for delay, but with every con-ceivable incentive to action, with an army amount-ing, after McCall joined him, to the imposing figureof 156,838, of whom an aggregate present of 127,327is reported by McClellan himself as of the 20th ofJune, — though he makes a reduction to 114,691 vol. xi.,of those present for duty equipped, — he wasted p- 238- the month of June in a busy and bustling activity lseu.which was in its results equivalent to mere idle-ness. He was directly invited to attack by the fineweather of the middle of the month, which he de-scribes as splendid in a dispatch of the 17th, and ibid., p. 232,by the absence of Stonewall Jackson in the Valleywith his 16,000 veterans, reenforced by 10,000troops from Lees army, as McClellan himself be-lieved and reported on the 18th. The President, IWd-by a dispatch of the same date, urged him to take

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