 | William Henry Hurlbert - History - 1864 - 324 pages
...be gone) a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment...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... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 500 pages
...be gone) a gr.eat temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment...corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell. to leave Banks at Manassas Junction; but when... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 500 pages
...be gone) a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment...corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell. to leave Banks at Manassas Junction ; but when... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahanuock and sack Washington. My implicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all...corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell. " There is a curious mystery about the number... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 672 pages
...a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My implicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My implicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My implicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My implicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all...corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. 3t was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell. I do not forget that I was satisfied with your... | |
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and reminded the General that the explicit order that Washington should, "by the judgment of all the commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure," had been neglected, and that was the reason for detaining McDowell. " There is a curious mystery about... 
