July 7th.–Mr. Bigelow invited me to breakfast, to meet Mr. Senator King, Mr. Olmsted, Mr. Thurlow Weed, a Senator from Missouri, a West Point professor, and others. It was indicative of the serious difficulties which embarrass the action of the Government to hear Mr. Wilson, the Chairman of the Military Committee of the Senate, inveigh [...]
William Howard Russell’s Diary: “Washington politicians were speaking of (Scott) as obstructive, obstinate, and prejudiced—unfit for the times and the occasion.”
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