 | United States. President - 1897 - 794 pages
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN. PRESIDENT'S GENERAL WAR ORDER No. 3. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 8, 1862. Ordered, That no change of the base of operations of the Army of the Potomac shall l>e made without leaving in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of the General in Chief... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 566 pages
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN. PRESIDENT'S GENERAL WAR ORDER No. 3. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 8, 1862. Ordered, That no change of the base of operations of the Army of tne Potomac shall be made without leaving in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 858 pages
...force as in the opinion of the General in Chief and the commanders of all the army corps shall leave said city entirely secure. That no more than two army corps (about 50,000 troops) of said Army of the Potomac shall be moved en route for a new base of operations until... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - Cabinet officers - 1899 - 514 pages
...Washington to the lower Chesapeake for the inauguration of the peninsular campaign : — 1st. To leave in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of the general-in-chief and corps commanders would leave that city entirely secure. 2d. Not more than two corps should move to... | |
 | Peter Smith Michie - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 544 pages
...this was outlined in General War Order No. 3, March 8th, as follows : " Ordered, That no change in the base of operations of the Army of the Potomac...Washington such a force as, in the opinion of the general in chief and the commanders of army corps, shall leave said city entirely secure. " That no... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...dread, issued the subjoineJ general order: EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, 1 March 8, 1862. ( OHDEBKP, That no change of the base of operations of the Army...Washington such a force as, in the opinion of the 60B9ral-in-chief and the commanders of army corps, shall leave said city entirely secure. That no more... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...were to form a separate corps, under Banks. In another order of the same date the President directed: That no change of the base of operations of the Army...opinion of the Generalin-chief and the commanders of Army Corps, shall leave said city entirely secure. . . . That any movement as aforesaid, en route for... | |
 | Emory Upton - United States - 1904 - 532 pages
...Order, No. 3, & directing that no change of the base of operations of the Arn^ of the Potomac should be made " without leaving in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of the General in Chief and the commanders of army corps" should leave "said city entirely secure." The second... | |
 | Emory Upton - United States - 1904 - 538 pages
...might be captured, the President, on the 8th of March, issued General War Order, No. 3,* directing that no change of the base of operations of the Army of the Potomac should be made "without leavmg in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of the General... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1904 - 534 pages
...might be captured, the President, on the 8th of March, issued General War Order, No. 3,'' directing that no change of the base of operations of the Army of the Potomac should be made "without leavmg in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of the General... | |
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Ordered: That no change of the base of operations of the Army of the Potomac shall be made without leaving in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of the general-in-chief and the commanders of all the army corps shall leave said city entirely... 
