 | George Congdon Gorham - Cabinet officers - 1899 - 514 pages
...entirely secure. 3. Move the remainder of the forces down the Potomac, choosing a new base at Fort Monroe, or anywhere between here and there, or at all events, move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route. This settled the responsibility. McClellan was given... | |
 | Peter Smith Michie - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 544 pages
...repossess himself of that position and line of communication. " 2. Leave Washington entirely secure. " 3. Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac,...or, at all events; move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route." * In the meanwhile the following order had been promulgated... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - History, Modern - 1903 - 796 pages
...the force down the Potomac," wrote the Secretary of War, communicating the President's decision, " choosing a new base at Fortress Monroe, or anywhere...or at all events, move such remainder of the army at once, in pursuit of the enemy, by some route." Preparations for a movement by water had already... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 606 pages
...entirely secure. "Third. Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac, choosing a new base at Fort Monroe, or anywhere between here and there; or, at all events, move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route." Two days before, the President had also announced a... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 604 pages
...himself of that position and line of communication. "Second. Leave Washington entirely secure. "Third. Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac, choosing a new base at Fort Monroe, or anywhere between here and there; or, at all events, move such remainder of the army... | |
 | Emory Upton - United States - 1904 - 538 pages
...repossess himself of that position and line of communication; Second. Leave Washington secure; Third. .Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac,...there; or at all events move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route. d March 17, Major-General EA Hitchcock was placed on... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1904 - 534 pages
...repossess himself of that position and line of communication; Second. Leave Washington secure; Third. Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac,...there; or at all events move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route. '* March 17, Major,General EA Hitchcock was placed on... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 pages
...repossess himself of that position and line of communication. 2. Leave Washington entirely secure. 3. Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac,...or, at all events, move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. SPEECH TO A PARTY... | |
 | Samuel Livingston French - History - 1906 - 382 pages
...not reposses himself of that position and line of communication. 2. Leave Washington entirely secure. 3. Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac,...or, at all events, move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route. ' ' Preparations were at once begun for the projected... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 456 pages
...himself of that position and line of communication. Secondly, leave Washington entirely secure. Thirdly, move the remainder of the force down the Potomac,...or, at all events, move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy, by some route." The next day McClellan issued an address to the army,... | |
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Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac, choosing a new base at Fortress Monroe, or anywhere between here and there, or, at all events, move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route. 
