Sunday, July 12, 1863.Washington, DC.
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Lincoln at telegraph office receives word of Gen. Meade's plan to
attack tomorrow. Paces floor, wringing his hands and muttering, "Too
late."
Bates, Telegraph Office, 157.
Assures Gen. Schenck that Gen. Isaac R. Trimble (CSA) has not been
imprisoned in Baltimore for fear traitorous associates will contact
him.
Abraham Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck, 12 July 1863, CW, 6:325. |