{"id":106498,"date":"2021-05-20T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=106498"},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:54:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:54:37","slug":"mcclellans-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/mcclellans-command\/","title":{"rendered":"McClellan&#8217;s Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-size: large;\">Headquarters Of The Army,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Washington, May 20, 1861.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>General <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-size: large;\">George B. McClellan<\/span>, U. S. Army,<\/div>\n<div><em><span style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Cincinnati, Ohio:<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Your letter of May 14 is received. The General-in-Chief says you have by this time General Orders, No. 19, extending your command over Western Virginia and Pennsylvania north of the Great Kanawha, &amp;c. Your authority is ample within your command.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 40px;\">E. D. TOWNSEND,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Assistant Adjutant-General.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headquarters Of The Army, Washington, May 20, 1861. General George B. McClellan, U. S. Army, Cincinnati, Ohio: Your letter of May 14 is received. The General-in-Chief says you have by this time General Orders, No. 19, extending your command over Western Virginia and Pennsylvania north of the Great Kanawha, &amp;c. Your authority is ample within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":88999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-106498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-of-the-rebellion-a-compilation-of-the-official-records-of-the-union-and-confederate-armies"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/townsend_e_d.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}