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U.S. Civil War History
U.S. Civil War History
1861 - U.S. President Lincoln, Secretary of State William Seward and Presidential Secretary John Hay paid a late night visit to General George B. McClellan. McClellan retired to his chambers before speaking to the president.
| "We have shared the incommunicable experience of war. We have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top.... In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire." - Oliver Wendell Holmes |
