 | 1863 - 856 pages
...explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of corps, be left enurdy secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell. I do not Cured that I was satisfied with your arrangement to leave Banks at Hauassas Junction; but when that... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...should, by the judgment of all the commanders of corps, be left entirely secure, had been entirely neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to...McDowell. I do not forget that I was satisfied with your arrangements to leave Banks at Manassas Junction ; but when that arrangement was broken up, and nothing... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...Washington. My explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of army corps, ho uld be moved into the streets and fired, to prevent...bagging cut, and tufts of cotton were blown about ManasBOS Junction; but, when that arrangement was broken up, and nothing was substituted for it, of... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...sack Washington. My implicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected....forget that I was satisfied with your arrangement to leaveBanks at Manassas Junction ; but when that arrangement was broken up, and nothing was substituted... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 150 pages
...sack Washington. My explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of nil the commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected....was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell. " 1 do not forget that I was satisfied with your arrangement to leave Banks at ManaKsaa Junction; but... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 pages
...had bepn neglected. It was precisely this Viat drove tue to detain McDowell. " I do not forget that t was satisfied with your arrangement to leave Banks at Manassas Junction, but when that arrange, ment was broken up, and nothing was substituted for it, of course I was constrained to substitute... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...sack Washington. My implicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected....broken up, and nothing was substituted for it, of con.-se I was constrained to substitute something for it myself. And allow me to ask, do you really... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...sack Washington. My implicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected....Manassas Junction : but when that arrangement was broken op, and nothing was substituted for it, of course I was constrained to substitute something for it... | |
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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. 
