General McClellanD. Appleton, 1901 - 489 strani |
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A. P. Hill advance arms arrived artillery attack bank batteries battle Bottom's Bridge Bridge brigade campaign Casey's cavalry Cheat River Chickahominy chief command Confederate army corps Creek cross D. H. Hill defensive delay Department directed division duty enemy enemy's engineer eral expedition fighting Fort Magruder Fort Monroe Franklin Frémont front guns Halleck Harper's Ferry headquarters Heintzelman Hill's Hooker's hundred immediate infantry intrenchments Jackson Johnston Lee's letter Longstreet Magruder Manassas McClel McClellan McDowell McDowell's Mechanicsville ment miles military Monroe morning move movement navy necessary North o'clock occupied officers Official War Records Ohio operations organization political Porter position possible Potomac President railroad re-enforcements reached rear reconnoissance regard regiments retreat Richmond road says Secretary Secretary of War sent siege South strength success Sumner Tennessee thousand tion transportation Union army Union forces Valley vicinity Virginia Washington Williamsburg York River Yorktown
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Stran 186 - That the 22d day of February, 1862, be the day for a general movement of the land and naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces.
Stran 59 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Stran 433 - As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order. But the enemy does now subsist his army at Winchester, at a distance nearly twice as great from railroad transportation as you would have to do, without the railroad last named.
Stran 59 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Stran 401 - R. H. Anderson, will follow General Longstreet. On reaching Middletown he will take the route to Harper's Ferry, and by Friday morning possess himself of the Maryland Heights and endeavor to capture the enemy at Harper's Ferry and vicinity.
Stran 282 - I ordered the army corps organization not only on the unanimous opinion of the twelve generals whom you had selected and assigned as generals of divisions, but also on the unanimous opinion of every military man I could get an opinion from, and every modern military book, yourself only excepted.
Stran 430 - 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.
Stran 187 - That the heads of departments, and especially the Secretaries of War and of the Navy, with all their subordinates, and the General-in-Chief, with all other commanders and subordinates of land and naval forces, will severally be held to their strict and full responsibilities for prompt execution of this order. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Stran 390 - I am clear that one of two courses should be adopted: First, to concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope ; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe.
Stran 402 - Longstreet, Jackson, and McLaws, and with the main body of the cavalry will cover the route of the army and bring up all stragglers that may haVe been left behind. The commands of Generals Jackson, McLaws, and Walker, after accomplishing the objects for which they have been detached, will join the main body of the army at Boonsboro