Letter from Lieutenant General Winfield Scott to Secretary of War Simon Cameron Requesting Retirement from the Army
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OCR Page 1 of 4Head quarter of the army
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Washington Oal31, 1861.
the
Here L Cameron
decretery of ther
Sir:
ando
to more then three
years There bein unable from a hurt, to meant
a horse, or to walk more than a few paces
at a time, 7 that with much pain. other +
her informities- - dropsy + vertigo- admonish
me that schore of mind i body with they Elis
inces of surgery and medicine, are needs
bury to ett . little more to a life already
protracted much beyond the usual span
of man.
It is under such cercumdtenced- made
doubly painful, by the unnatural + unjust
of our so late) prosperous . happy thenor, that
rebellion now raging in the southern States
compelled to request that my name
be placed on the list of army officers retered
from
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