 | 1863 - 856 pages
...Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They cannot be united by land without exposing both to destruction,...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
...Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They cannot be united by land without exposing both to destruction...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,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 848 pages
...Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They cannot be united by land without exposing both to destruction,...— say Fredericksburg — where the two armies can be united. Let me now allude to some of the objections which you have urged. You say that to withdraw... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1863 - 668 pages
...Potomac is split into two parts, with tin- entire force of the enemy directly between them. They cannot be united by land without exposing both to destruction...water, say Fredericksburg, where the two armies can be united. Let me now allude to some of the objections which you have urged. You say that to withdraw... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1863 - 888 pages
...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 is, under present circumstances, a militar)' impossibility. The only alternative is to send the forces «n the Peninsula to some point... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...diminished to re-enforce you, Washington, Maryland and Pennsylvania would be left uncovered and exposed. If your force be reduced to strengthen Pope, you would...water, say 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... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They cannot be united by land without exposing both to destruction,...water, say Fredericksburg, where the two armies can be united. "Let me now allude to some of the objections which you have urged: you say that the withdrawal... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They cannot be united by land without exposing both to destruction,...water, say Fredericksburg, where the two armies can be united. Let me now allude to some of the objections which you have urged : you say that the withdrawal... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They cannot be united by land without exposing both to destruction,...water, say Fredericksburg, where the two armies can be united. "Let me now allude to some of the objections which you have urged: you say that the withdrawal... | |
 | United States. War Department - United States - 1864 - 256 pages
...Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They cannot be united by land without exposing both to destruction,...water, say Fredericksburg, where the two armies can be united. "Let me now allude to some of the objections which you have urged: you Bay that the withdrawal... | |
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They can not 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... 
