Letter relating to General George C. McClellan's presidential aspirations, 1914.

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Letter relating to General George C. McClellan's presidential aspirations, 1914.

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A proof slip from Harper's Magazine, November 20, 1914, "Was McClellan a Traitor?" The article was an excerpt from the diary of President Lincoln's secretary John Hay in which Hay wrote that the President related to him that Major General W. F. Smith stated that Major General George G. McClellan was a traitor. President Lincoln stated the story had been told to him by Vermont Governor J. Gregory Smith, General Smith's cousin. The folder contains a letter from Walter H. Crockett, November 23, 1914, to Mrs. W. B. Fonda of St. Albans, Vermont, asking about her father's (Governor J. Gregory Smith) part in the episode and did she have anything in writing to substantiate it. Mrs. Fonda replied to Mr. Crockett on December 7, 1914, that she had heard her father tell the story many times when she was a child, but had no written documentation to prove it.

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