To Mary Ellen McClellan
Grafton June 23/61
… We did not reach here until about 2 in the morning & I was tired out…
Today I have been so busy that I did not know until 10 mins. ago that it is Sunday & cannot yet realize the fact. Everything here needs the hand of the master & is getting it fast. I shall hardly be able to move from here for a couple of days–so difficult is it to get these Mohawks in working trim…
The weather is delightful here–we are well up in the hills & have the mountain air…
GEO. B. McCLELLAN
Sources
Sears, Stephen W., ed. The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989.
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