 | 1863 - 856 pages
...attack you in full force. In other words, the old Army of the Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They...send the forces on the peninsula to some point by water—say Fredericksburg—where the two armies can be united. Let me now allude to some of the objections... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1862 - 268 pages
...attack you in full force. In other words, the old army of the Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They...peninsula, is, under present circumstances, a military imt possibility. The only alternative is to send the forces on the peninsula to some point by water,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1863 - 888 pages
...attack you in full force. In other words, the old army of the Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They cannot be united by land without exposing l-itli to destruction, and yet they must be united. iux:nd Pope's forces by water to the Peninsula... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...attack you in full force. In other words, the old Army of the Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They...forces on the Peninsula to some point by water, say Frederibksburg, where the two armies can be united. Let me now allude to some of the objections which... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They can not be united by land without exposing both to destruction,...Fredericksburg, where the two armies can be united. * * But you will reply, why not re-enforce me here, so that I can strike Richmond from my present position... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 500 pages
...Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They can not be united by land without exposing both to destruction,...water, say Fredericksburg, where the two armies can DC united. Let me now allude to some of the objections which you have urged. You say that the withdrawal... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...two parts, with the entire force of the anemy directly between them. They cannot be united by Imid * * * " But, you will reply, why not reenforce me here, so that I can strike Richmond from my present... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - History - 1864 - 324 pages
...force of the enemy between them." " They cannot be united by land," General Halleck went on to say, " without exposing both to destruction, and yet they...forces on the Peninsula to some point by water, say Fredericksbui'g, where the two armies can be united." In the face of the subsequent history of the... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 344 pages
...They cannot be united by land," General Halleck went on to LIFE OF GEN. OEORGE B. McCLELLAN. say, " without exposing both to destruction, and yet they must be united. To send Pope's forces by water to tfie Peninsula is, under present circumstances, a military impossibility. The only alternative is to... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 150 pages
...split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They can not be uniied by land without exposing both to destruction, and yet they must be uniied. To send Pope's forces by water to the Peninsula, is, under present circumstances, a mi itary... | |
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They cannot be united by land without exposing both to destruction, and yet they must be united. To send Pope's forces by water to the Peninsula is, under present circumstances, a military impossibility. The only alternative is to send the forces on the... 
