Letters from JOHN A. McCLERNAND

B. 1812 · D. 1900

John Alexander McClernand was an American lawyer, politician, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He was a prominent Democratic politician in Illinois and a member of the United States House of Representatives before the war. McClernand was firmly dedicated to the principles of Jacksonian democracy and supported the Compromise of 1850.

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John A. McClernand to Scouts here to-day from Central Mississippi and Northern Alabama, January 18, 1863

From John A. McClernand

To Scouts here to-day from Central Mississippi and Northern Alabama

January 18, 1863

Steamer Tigress, January 18, 1863. GENERAL: General Ewing’s brigade has been attached to General Sherman’s corpsin pursuance of your order. This addition gives General Sherman’s corps thirty-one regiments, and, according…

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