Charles Sumner: “But, if not beyond learning from the enemy, we shall see that the generals most hated on our side, and, like Adams and…”

“But, if not beyond learning from the enemy, we shall see that the generals most hated on our side, and, like Adams and Hancock in the Revolution, specially excepted from pardon, are Phelps and Hunter, plainly because the ideas of these generals are more dreaded than any battery or strategy.”