I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses,…

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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything? ✨ Letter to George B. McClellan, 24 Oct. 1862
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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything? ✨ Letter to George B. McClellan, 24 Oct. 1862

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