Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 19, page 217 with photograph, May 7, 1862

Describes a visit with General Joseph Hooker. Transcription: 187 Brig-Gen. Joseph Hooker. gave us a friendly reception and invited us to share his dinner, an exceedingly good one, served under canvas. Talcott, a newspaper correspondent, I forget for what journal, and Lumley the artist, partook of it also. The day was a beautiful one, the sky cloudless, the sun hot. Hooker spoke very freely and bitterly of his having been left unsupported to bear the brunt of the fight against heavy odds, using a sentence he, three days photograph Brigadier-General Hooker afterwards Major-General and Commander in chief of the "Army of the Potomac." Gunn's diary continued afterwards, embodied in his official report of the battle; this: "History will not be believed when it is told that the noble officers and men of my division were permitted to carry on this unequal struggle from morning until night unaided, in the presence of more than 30,000 of their comrades with arms in their hands." The General evidently considered Sumner to blame in a minor degree, George B. McClellan in the major. "He's no soldier!" he said, indignantly, of the

Date

1862

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