 | Francis Winthrop Palfrey - Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 - 1881 - 272 pages
...become impatient, so much so that Halleck, the General-in-Chief, was instructed to telegraph McClellan as follows : " The President directs that you cross...and give battle to ^the enemy or drive him south. . . ." This, however, did not move McClellan, and on the 10th of October Stuart crossed the Potomac,... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - Literary Criticism - 1882 - 466 pages
...although it was then 150,000 strong. On the 6th of October General McClellan was peremptorily ordered to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south; — "your army must move now," he was told, "while the roads are good." But the army did not move, and an acrimonious correspondence... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - Literary Criticism - 1882 - 476 pages
...although it was then 150.000 strong. On the 6th of October General McClellan was peremptorily ordered to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south; — "your armv must move now," he was told, " while the roads are good." But the army did not move, and an acrimonious... | |
 | Theodore Burr Gates - United States - 1884 - 690 pages
...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... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 1194 pages
...he was peremptorily ordered by the General-in-Chief Halleck on the 6th of October in these words : " The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...Your army must move now while the roads are good. ... I am directed to add that the Secretary of War and the General-in-Chief fully concur with the President... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - United States - 1885 - 166 pages
...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... | |
 | Abner Ralph Small - Maine Infantry. 16th Regt., 1862-1865 - 1886 - 358 pages
...impatient, so much so, that Halleek, the commander-in-chief, was instructed to telegraph McClellan as follows: "The President directs that you cross...and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south." This did not move McClellan, but a rumor that such a telegram had been received, reached us, and we... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - Battles - 1886 - 250 pages
...McClellan was not disposed to move. On the 6th of October, he received orders from General Halleck to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. " You must move while the roads are good," was the telegram. Some of the troops needed clothing, and... | |
 | John Lord Parker - United States - 1887 - 678 pages
...the Capitol. On the 7th of October, the commanding general had received a telegram directing him to "cross the Potomac, and give battle to the enemy,...Your army must move now while the roads are good." But upon repeated representations from Gen. McClellan that the army was wholly deficient in cavalry,... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1887 - 1240 pages
...received the following telegram : WASHINGTON, D. С., October 6, 1862. Major-General MrCi.ri.i AN : I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The President directs that you croea the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south. Your aruiy must move now while the... | |
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President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Your army must move now, while the roads are good. 
