{"id":107864,"date":"2021-06-05T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107864"},"modified":"2021-06-04T20:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T01:11:27","slug":"lincoln-to-scott-on-meigs-as-quartermaster-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/lincoln-to-scott-on-meigs-as-quartermaster-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln to Scott on Meigs as Quartermaster-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">[ Private. ]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 40px;\">Executive Mansion , June 5 , 1861. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>Lieutenant-General Scott.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">My dear Sir : Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is for me to do a thing arbitrarily when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I very much wish to appoint Colonel Meigs quartermaster-general, and yet General Cameron does not quite consent. I have come to know Colonel Meigs quite well for a short acquaintance, and, so far as I am capable of judging, I do not know one who combines the qualities of masculine intellect, learning, and experience of the right sort, and physical power of labor and endurance, so well as he.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I know he has great confidence in you, always. sustaining, so far as I have observed, your opinions against any differing ones.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You will lay me under one more obligation if you can and will use your influence to remove General Cameron&#8217;s objection. I scarcely need tell you I have nothing personal in this, having never seen or heard of Colonel Meigs until about the end of last March.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Your obedient servant, <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 40px;\">A. Lincoln.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Evidently General Scott used his influence with Sec retary Cameron in the way desired , as Meigs was appointed .<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Private. ] Executive Mansion , June 5 , 1861. Lieutenant-General Scott. My dear Sir : Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is for me to do a thing arbitrarily when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me. I very much wish to appoint Colonel Meigs quartermaster-general, and yet General Cameron does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-abraham-lincoln-from-any-source"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Abraham-Lincoln.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107864","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=107864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}