The Life, Campaigns, and Public Services of General McClellan. (George B. McClellan): The Hero of Western Virginia! South Mountain! and Antietam! ... |
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advance Antietam army arrived artillery attack August bank batteries battle battle of Antietam Boonsboro bridge brigade Burnside camp campaign Captain cavalry centre cheers Chickahominy Colonel column Couch's division crest cross defence directed enemy enemy's eral field fight fire flank following despatch force Fortress Monroe forward Franklin Franklin's corps front General-in-Chief GEORGE ground gunboats guns HALLECK Harper's Ferry Harrison's Landing HEAD-QUARTERS Heintzelman honor Hooker infantry intrenched James river July June Keedysville Keyes Major-General Major-General Commanding Malvern Hill Manassas Maryland McCall's McClellan ment miles military morning move movement necessary night numbers o'clock occupied officers Peninsular campaign Pennsylvania Porter position Potomac President prisoners railroad reached rear rebel received regiments reinforcements repulsed retreat Richmond road Rohrersville Savage's station sent Sharpsburg skirmishers Slocum's division soldiers soon Sumner supplies telegraphed thousand tion troops turnpike victory Washington Western Virginia White Oak swamp whole woods wounded Yorktown
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Page 55 - country will not allow me to evade. " There is a curious mystery about the number of troops now with you. When I telegraphed you on the 6th, saying yon had over a hundred thousand with you, I had just obtained from the Secretary of War a statement taken, as he said, from your own
Page 106 - Unless the principles governing the future conduct of our struggle shall be made known and approved, the effort to obtain requisite forces will be almost hopeless. A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies. "A system of policy thus constitutional, and
Page 55 - that I have never written you, or spoken to you, in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as in my most anxious judgment I consistently can. But you must act.
Page 183 - On the 6th of October, as stated above, I was ordered by the President, through his general-in-chief, to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Two lines were presented for my
Page 64 - upon the purpose of a very desperate defence of Richmond, I think the time is near when you must either attack Richmond or give up the job, and come to the defence of Washington. Let me hear from you instantly.
Page 89 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "
Page 54 - by the judgment of all the commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell. " I do not forget that I was satisfied with your arrangement to leave Banks at Manassas Junction,
Page 54 - and could not leave it without again exposing the Upper Potomac and the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. This presented (or would present, when McDowell and Sumner should be gone) a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My implicit order that Washington
Page 105 - is the. cause of free institutions and self-government. The Constitution and the Union must be preserved, whatever may be the cost in time, treasure, and blood. If Secession is successful, other dissolutions are clearly to be seen in the future. Let neither military disaster, political faction nor foreign war shake your settled purpose to enforce the equal operation of
Page 110 - a decided victory here, and the military strength of the rebellion is crushed. It matters not what partial reverses we may meet with elsewhere ; here is the true defence of Washington ; it is here, on the banks of the James, that the fate of the Union