...Lincoln to Washington General Halleck telegraphed to General McClclian under date of October 6 : " The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south," etc. every man of the Army of the Potomac who is within my reach." I had already sent off even my headquarters...

...into the river. So the Maryland campaign ended. In October, Gen. Halleck telegraphed to McClellan : " Cross the Potomac, and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south." McClellan crossed, and at Warrenton was " relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac." Hapless...

...then new protests and new orders again, until finally a peremptory dispatch came. This dispatch was, " Cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south," an order bearing the impress of the terse good sense and rough directness of the Federal President....

...that it was competent to move at once in pursuit of Lee, that on the 6th he instructed McClellan to " cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him South. Your army must now move," he said, " while the roads are good." Twenty days were spent in correspondence between the...

...accomplish his preparations in haste, and obey an order telegraphed by President Lincoln to this effect: " Cross the Potomac, and give battle to the enemy, or drive him southwards." The Federal army now under arms numbered 110,000 men. The season was very favourable for...

...accomplish his preparations in haste, and obey an order telegraphed by President Lincoln to this effect : " Cross the Potomac, and give battle to the enemy, or drive him southwards." The Federal army now under arms numbered 110,000 men. The season was very favourable for...

...on his return to Washington, this order, bearing date October 6th: "I am instructed to telegraph to you as follows : ' The President directs that you...Your army must move now, while the roads are good.' " To this General McClellan replies by making an inquiry about the troops that he might be reinforced...

...his return to Washington, this order, bearing date October 6th : " I am instructed to telegraph to you as follows : ' The President directs that you...Your army must move now, while the roads are good.' " To this General McClellan replies by making an inquiry about the troops that he might be reinforced...

...Halleck often assumed an unfriendly or ironical tone. On the sixth of October, Halleck telegraphed: "The President directs that you cross the Potomac...Your army must move now, while the roads are good." But McClellan did not go. On the 21st he telegraphed Halleck that he had been making every exertion...

...and clothing continued to be enormous down to a very late period after the order of October 6th to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south was received. The reports of the army quartermasters, made to General McClellan's headquarters between...