Annotation
[1] AGO General Orders No. 94, November 1, 1861. General Scott's retirement had been delayed since August 9, by the president's request. Although Scott's physical infirmity was the reason given the public for his retirement, McClellan had long been in disagreement with his superior, and on August 8 wrote him a letter which Scott deemed an insult. Scott's letter to Cameron of August 9, indicated the nub of dissension as follows: ``McClellan has propagated, in high quarters, the idea expressed in the letter before me, that Washington was not only `insecure,' but in `imminent danger' . . . . I am confident in the opposite opinion. . . . Accordingly I must beg the President. . . to allow me to be placed on the officers' retired list. . . .'' (DLC-RTL). On August 10, Lincoln asked McClellan to withdraw his critical letter and requested Scott to withdraw his resignation. Scott wrote to Cameron, August 12, that he still wished to resign because of his conviction that McClellan intended to maintain an attitude of insubordination: ``The original offence given to me by. . . McClellan. . . seems to have been the result of deliberation between him & some of the members of the cabinet, by whom all the greater war questions are to be settled---without report to, or consultation with, me. . . .'' (DLC-RTL).
[2] A preliminary draft of this paragraph, in the handwriting of Salmon P. Chase, is as follows:
``The President avails himself of this occasion to express to Lieutenant General