 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1887 - 1240 pages
...swollen the Potomac and impaired the roads. On the 6th of October * he was peremptorily ordered to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. '' Yom army must move now, while the roads are good." It will be observed that three weeks have elapsed... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 pages
...WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1802. MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN : I am instructed to telegraph you as follows: The President directs that 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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 598 pages
...WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN : I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...Your army must move now while the roads are good. If you cross the river between the enemy and Washington and cover the latter by your operation you... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...General McClellan's Oct. 1. "",' M -;-. '.'>:,.-. -'' , . I .i ' - ,,V . ' /".".i ,'. ,!';• .' '. body-guard," said Mr. Lincoln, sadly. Very kind but...President directs that you cross the Potomac and give hattle to the enemy or drive Lira South. Your army must move now while the roads are good." To a friend... | |
 | Charles E. Davis - United States - 1893 - 570 pages
...October General Halleck was instructed by the President to telegraph General McClellan as follows : " The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south." This, however, did not move McClellan. On the loth of October the rebel general, Stuart, crossed the... | |
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The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. 
