 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...6th, Halleck sent a telegram of a peremptory sort > " I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The president directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Youi army must move now, while the roads STUART'S CAVALRY RAID. 235 are good. If you cross the river... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN : I am instructed to telegraph you as follows: The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy - In his memoirs McClellan tries to create the im- ble purpose is to see the troops and the battle-field... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1862 - 268 pages
...swollen the Potomac and impaired the roads. On the 6th of October he was peremptorily ordered " to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or...Your army must move now, while the roads are good." It will be observed that three weeks have elapsed since this order was given. 4th. In my opinion, there... | |
 | 1863 - 856 pages
...had swollen the Potomac and impaired the roads. On the 6th of October he was peremptorily ordered to "cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or...Your army must move now, while the roads are good." It will be observed that three weeks have elapsed since this order was given. In regard to Gen. McClellan's... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1863 - 888 pages
...WASUIXOTOU, D. С., October 6, 1362. Major- General McCMlan : I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...and Washington, and cover the latter by your line of operation, you can be reênforced with thirty thousand men. If you move up the valley of the Shcnandoah,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 848 pages
...to Gen. McCIellan: WieniHGTOH, DC, Oct. 6, ISiS. My.-Gen. McCIellan: I am instructed to telegraph to you as follow*: The President directs that you cross...him south. Your army must move now while the roads arc good. If you cross the river between the enemy and Washington, and cover the latter by your line... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1863 - 852 pages
...swollen the Potomac wd impaired the roads. On the sixth of Ocióte he was peremptorily ordered : " To cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or...drive him south. Your army must move now, while the rotds are good." It will be observed that three weeks have elapsed since this order was firen. 4. In... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...m ] WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, DC, October 6, 1862. I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him eouth. Your army must move now, while the roads are good. If you cross the river between the enemy... | |
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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. 
