George B. Wallis letter, 1862 Apr. 28.

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George B. Wallis letter, 1862 Apr. 28.

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Letter from George B. Wallis, reporter for the New York herald, to his editor, John Gordon Bennett. In the letter Wallis writes of a recent visit to the White House to interview President Abraham Lincoln, whom Wallis describes as looking "fresh and vigorous," cheered by the recent news of the capture of New Orleans and confident about the eventual outcome of the war. Wallis also describes an interview with Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who is also sanguine about the war's progress and expecting good news from General Halleck, then in pursuit of Confederate general P.T. Beauregard following the Battle of Shiloh. Included in the letter is an account of a train accident in which Wallis was involved on the way to his meeting with Lincoln.

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