. Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career. order was given Greneral McClellan to report toarmy headquarters the number and position oftroops under his command, to which order he paidno attention whatever. Greneral Scott felt himselfhelpless in the face of this mute and persistent dis-obedience, but he was not able to bear it in the 4th of October he addressed anotherpassionate remonstrance to the Secretary of War,setting forth these facts, asking whether there wereno remedy for such offenses, adverting once moreto his physic
. Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career. order was given Greneral McClellan to report toarmy headquarters the number and position oftroops under his command, to which order he paidno attention whatever. Greneral Scott felt himselfhelpless in the face of this mute and persistent dis-obedience, but he was not able to bear it in the 4th of October he addressed anotherpassionate remonstrance to the Secretary of War,setting forth these facts, asking whether there wereno remedy for such offenses, adverting once moreto his physical infirmities, and at last divulgingthe true reason why he had borne so long the con-tumely of his junior — that he was only awaitingthe arrival of General Halleck, whose presencewould give him increased confidence in the preser-vation of the Union, and thus permit him to the 31st of October he took his final resolution,and addressed the following letter to the Secretaryof War: For more than three years I have been unable, from ahurt, to mount a horse or to walk more than a few paces. GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN. THE AEMY OF THE POTOMAC 465 at a time, and that with much pain. Other and newinfirmities—dropsy and vertigo—admonish me that re-pose of mind and body, with the appliances of surgeryand medicine, are necessary to add a little more to a lifealready protracted much beyond the usual span of is under such circumstances, made doubly painful bythe unnatural and unjust rebellion now raging in theSouthern States of our so late prosperous and happyUnion, that I am compelled to request that my name beplaced on the list of army officers retired from activeservice. As this request is founded on an absolute rightgranted by a recent act of Congress, I am entirely atliberty to say it is with deep regret that I withdrawmyself, in these momentous times, from the orders of aPresident who has treated me with distinguished kind-ness and courtesy, whom I know among m
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