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- GLC#
- GLC02063.01
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 18 September 1862
- Author/Creator
- McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864
- Title
- to Leonard Ross
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Discusses an exaggerated news report regarding the battle of Antietam. Writes "The substance of the news is that 'Genl McClellan has driven the Rebels out of Maryland with great slaughter and has bagged Genl Lee.' The bagging part I think is prospective and the other like all telegraphic news from the Associated Press must be taken with some grains of allowance. The dispatch says 'Bully for Mc'...I think on the whole it is good." Seems skeptical of the good news, and rightly so. Lee was not captured, and though he was driven from Maryland, both sides suffered heavy losses. Written on printed stationery of the "United States Military Railroad, Superintendent's Office." Penciled docket on verso.
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