Ordered: That no change of the base of operations of the Army of the Potomac shall be made without leaving in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of the general-in-chief and the commanders of all the army corps shall leave said city entirely... History of the American War - Page 316by Henry Charles Fletcher - 1865Full view - About this book
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...1862. — PRESIDENT'S GENERAL WAR ORDER No. 3. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, March 8, 1862. Ordered, That no change of the base of operations of the Army...opinion of the general-in-chief and the commanders of all the army corps shall leave said city entirely secure. That no more than two army corps (about 50,000... | |
| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - Presidents - 1897 - 800 pages
...LINCOLN. PRESIDENT'S GENERAL WAR ORDER No. 3. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 8, 186z. Ordered, That no change of the base of operations of the Army...about Washington such a force as in the opinion of the General in Chief and the commanders of all the army corps shall leave said city entirely secure. That... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 794 pages
...LINCOLN. PRESIDENT'S GENERAL WAR ORDER No. 3. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, Ufarch 8, 1862. Ordered, That no change of the base of operations of the Army...of the Potomac shall be made without leaving in and alxmt Washington such a force as in the opinion of the General in Chief and the commanders of all the... | |
| United States. President - 1897 - 794 pages
...LINCOLN. PRESIDENT'S GENERAL WAR ORDER No. 3. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 8, 1862. Ordered, That no change of the base of operations of the Army of the Potomac shall l>e made without leaving in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of the General in Chief... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 566 pages
...LINCOLN. PRESIDENT'S GENERAL WAR ORDER No. 3. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 8, 1862. Ordered, That no change of the base of operations of the Army of tne Potomac shall be made without leaving in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of... | |
| George Congdon Gorham - Cabinet officers - 1899 - 514 pages
...Washington to the lower Chesapeake for the inauguration of the peninsular campaign : — 1st. To leave in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of the general-in-chief and corps commanders would leave that city entirely secure. 2d. Not more than two corps should move to... | |
| Peter Smith Michie - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 544 pages
...this was outlined in General War Order No. 3, March 8th, as follows : " Ordered, That no change in the base of operations of the Army of the Potomac...Washington such a force as, in the opinion of the general in chief and the commanders of army corps, shall leave said city entirely secure. " That no... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...dread, issued the subjoineJ general order: EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, 1 March 8, 1862. ( OHDEBKP, That no change of the base of operations of the Army...Washington such a force as, in the opinion of the 60B9ral-in-chief and the commanders of army corps, shall leave said city entirely secure. That no more... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...were to form a separate corps, under Banks. In another order of the same date the President directed: That no change of the base of operations of the Army...shall leave said city entirely secure. . . . That any movement as aforesaid, en route for a new base of operations, which may be ordered by the General-in-chief,... | |
| Emory Upton - United States - 1904 - 532 pages
...Order, No. 3, & directing that no change of the base of operations of the Arn^ of the Potomac should be made " without leaving in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of the General in Chief and the commanders of army corps" should leave "said city entirely secure." The second... | |
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