TO MCCLELLAN (10-13-63): “. . . This letter is in no sense an order.” TO HALLECK (9-19-63): “I hope you will consider it . . . .” TO BURNSIDE (9-27-63): “It was suggested to you, not ordered . . . .” TO BANKS (1-13-64): “Frame orders, and fix times and places, for this, and that, according to your own judgment.” TO GRANT (4-30-64): If there is anything wanting which is within my power to give, do not fail to let me know it.”
