{"id":106528,"date":"2021-05-21T09:15:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=106528"},"modified":"2021-05-18T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:12:41","slug":"i-have-no-accouterments-no-means-of-transportation-and-no-money-general-mcclellan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/i-have-no-accouterments-no-means-of-transportation-and-no-money-general-mcclellan\/","title":{"rendered":"I have no accouterments, no means of transportation, and no money.\u2014General McClellan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Cincinnati, Ohio, May 21, 1861.<\/div>\n<div>Col. <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-size: large;\">E. D. Townsend,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If I have to move into Western Virginia or Kentucky, as may any<br \/>\nday become necessary, the Ohio contingent is not sufficient. I have no accouterments, no means of transportation, and no money. The Adjutant-General refuses recruits from Newport Barracks for the companies from Randall. Without means I can do nothing. If the Union men of Western Virginia and Kentucky are to be assisted, I must have from twenty to thirty regiments of Ohio troops, batteries, and money.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 40px;\">GEO. B. MCCLELLAN,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Major-General.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, Ohio, May 21, 1861. Col. E. D. Townsend, If I have to move into Western Virginia or Kentucky, as may any day become necessary, the Ohio contingent is not sufficient. I have no accouterments, no means of transportation, and no money. The Adjutant-General refuses recruits from Newport Barracks for the companies from Randall. Without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":106298,"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-106528","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":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/General-George-Brinton-McClellan.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}