NEWS OF 150 YEARS AGO
November-December 1862
From The Missouri Democrat, Monday, November 10, 1862.
THE VERY LATEST.
IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON.
A CABINET CRISIS IMPENDING.
REMOVAL OF GEN. McCLELLAN.
WHY HE WAS REMOVED.
[Special Dispatch to the New York Sunday Mercury.]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—A Cabinet crisis is impending. It is reported Seward, Smith, Bates and Blair will retire, and their places be filled by Fessenden, Colfax, Winter Davis, and some other Western Republican. It may not be announced before.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9,–The Herald’s dispatch says Burnside is appointed in place of McClellan. The removal has caused great excitement here to-night. Gen. Fitz John Porter is ordered here to answer charges against him by Pope.
The mortar schooners at the Navy Yard are having their mortars removed and replaced by 100-pounder Parrot guns amidships, rifled guns on their sides, and a pivot gun forward. Their destination is not made public.
LATER.
The Removal of McClellan Confirmed—Why it was Done.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9.—The removal of McClellan caused great excitement here. Among the rumors of the causes is that some instructions from the General-in-Chief were not followed, and Lee escaped in consequence.
Forney’s Press, of to-morrow, says it was purely a military consultation and discussion. Although recommended to the President and approved by him some time ago, it was only finally resolved upon after a change became inevitable. No act of the present Administration has been the subject of greater deliberation.
McClellan en route for Trenton./h3>
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—The Monitor left the Navy Yard last evening and went down the river.
Gen. Hunter returns in a few days to the Department of the South.
It is reported that McClellan passed through here to-day on his way to Trenton.