 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...The result was that in less than a week afterwards Halleck sent McClellan these peremptory words : " The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...Your army must move now, while the roads are good." But McClellan did not obey the order, and now was renewed the wonderful correspondence between him... | |
 | Robert Alonzo Brock - Virginia - 1888 - 420 pages
...numbered 150,000 men, and on the 6th Halleck telegraphed him, saying: "The President directs that vou cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him South. Your army must move while the roads are good." But two weeks passed away, and still no advance was made. Halleck once more... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1888 - 512 pages
...Washington he issued an order, dated October 6, 1862, through General Halleck, directing McClellan to "cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south." This order McClellan declined to obey. On the loth of that month, JEB Stuart, a dashing Rebel cavalry... | |
 | Régis de Trobriand - United States - 1888 - 816 pages
...orders to overcome the persistent inertia of the general, for on the 6th he sent him a formal order, "to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him South." Without prescribing to him a line of operations, he stated simply that McClellan could have thirty... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - History - 1888 - 574 pages
...and made himself acquainted with the condition of the army. Five days later he ordered McClellan to "cross the Potomac, and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south." The despatch added, " Your army must move now, while the roads are good. If you cross the river between... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 pages
...McClellan the following positive instructions : WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1802. MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN : I am instructed to telegraph you as follows: The President...you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy 2 In his memoirs McClellan tries to create the im- Ые purpose is to see the troops and the battle-field... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...The President direct* that you cross the Potomac aud give battle to the enemy, or drive him •outh. Your army must move now, while the roads are good. If you cross the river between tho enemy and Washington, and cover the latter Dy your operation, you can be re-enforced with thirty... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...ambiguity in the following despatch which General McClellan received from General Halleck, October 6th : " The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...Your army must move now while the roads are good." To a friend the President said : " With all McClellan's failings as a soldier, he is a pleasant and... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...ambiguity in the following despatch which General McClellan received from General Halleck, October 6th : " The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...Your army must move now while the roads are good." To a friend the President said : " With all McClellan's failings as a soldier, he is a pleasant and... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...ambiguity in the following despatch which General McClellan received from General Halleck, October 6th : "The President directs that you cross the Potomac...Your army must move now while the roads are good." To a friend the President said : " With all McClellan's failings as a soldier, he is a pleasant and... | |
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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. 
