McClellan; a Vindication of the Military Career of General George B. McClellan: A Lawyer's BriefNeale publishing Company, 1916 - 458 pages |
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A. P. Hill Administration advance Antietam artillery assault attack authority batteries Battles and Leaders Bull Run Burnside campaign capture cavalry CHAPTER Chickahominy Civil Clellan Colonel command condition Confederate corps D. H. Hill defense delay despatch division enemy eral favorable Federal fight force Fort Monroe Fortress Monroe Franklin garrison general-in-chief Gettysburg Government Grant guns Halleck Harper's Ferry Heintzelman Hooker hostile Ibid Jackson James River Johnston July June Lee's letter Lincoln Longstreet Maj.-Gen Major-General Malvern Hill Manassas McClel McClellan McClellan's military McDowell McDowell's ment miles movement North numbers officers Official Record operations Peninsula Peninsular Campaign political Pope Porter position Potomac President re-enforcements rebel Rebellion regiments reinforcements result retreat Richmond road says Secretary Secretary of War sent soldiers South Mountain Southern Stanton Story success Sumner supplies sure Swinton tion troops Union army United victory Virginia War Department Washington West Point withdrawal Yorktown
Popular passages
Page 102 - Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 157 - You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting, and not surmounting, a difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments, at either place. The country will not fail to note, is now noting, that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated.
Page 396 - The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Your army must move now, while the roads are good.
Page 94 - This, I think, is exactly right, as to how our forces should move. But please look over the despatches you may have received from here, even since you made that order, and discover, if you can, that there is any idea in the head of any one here, of " putting our army south of the enemy," or of "following him to the death
Page 262 - ... cannot but regard our condition as critical, and I earnestly desire, in view of possible contingencies, to lay before your Excellency, for your private consideration, my general views concerning the existing state of the rebellion, although they do not strictly relate to the situation of this army or strictly come within the scope of my official duties.
Page 223 - In addition to what I have already said, I only wish to say to the President that I think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak.
Page 397 - Shenandoah, not more than 12,000 or 15,000 can be sent to you. The President advises the interior line between Washington and the enemy, but does not order it. He is very desirous that your army move as soon as possible. You will immediately report what line you adopt, and when you intend to cross the river; also to what point the re-enforcements are to be sent.
Page 265 - The policy of the Government must be supported by concentrations of military power. The national forces should not be dispersed in expeditions, posts of occupation, and numerous armies, but should be mainly collected into masses, and brought to bear upon the armies of the confederate States. Those armies thoroughly defeated, the political structure which they support would soon cease to exist.
Page 157 - And once more let me tell you. it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting and not surmounting a difficulty : that we would find the same enemy and the same or equal intrenchments at either place.
Page 398 - Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the battle of Antietam that fatigues anything ? A.
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