Every thing still remains very quiet. About
noon a flag of truce accompanied by Gen
Franklin, passed out to the rebel lines, to
effect a change of prisoners. Our whole line
is under arms. During the afternoon had a
severe thunder shower.
William Buel Franklin, 1823-1903, performed well in the Peninsular Campaign, and at Antietam but was accused by Ambrose Burnside of disobeying orders at Fredericksburg and so being partly responsible for the Union defeat. Lincoln refused to remove him from command but he was posted to the western theatre where he was wounded. After the war he had a varied and successful career managing of Colt's Firearms, supervising the construction of the Connecticut state capitol, serving as a presidential elector in 1876, and acting as commissioner general for the United States at the Paris Exposition in 1888.
MSS 8493
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