The Peninsular Campaign and Its Antecedents: As Developed by the Report of Maj.-Gen. Geo. B. McClellan, and Other Published DocumentsD. Van Nostrand, 1864 - 94 strani |
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66 Question A. P. Hill advance affairs Annapolis army arrived artillery attack batteries battle battle of Gaines Bottom's Bridge brigade campaign Capt cavalry Chickahominy Chief Clellan cloth commenced corps commanders council D. H. Hill defence delay dispatch division edition enemy enemy's Engineers estimate executed Fair Oaks fighting force Fort Monroe Franklin front of Washington Goldsborough Gunnery guns Hampton Roads Heintzelman Infantry Jackson James River June Lecomte's Longstreet lower Chesapeake Magruder Manassas March McCall McClellan McDowell ment Merrimac miles military morning move movement Naval Navy Department night Norfolk Nostrand's Publications NOTE numbers o'clock Occoquan officers operations Ordnance Peninsula Porter position Potomac practicable President railroad Rappahannock rebel Regiment reinforcements repulsed retreat Richmond rifle right wing risk says secret service Secretary Secretary of War sent steamers Sumner take Richmond tion troops United vessels victory Volunteers White Oak Swamp whole withdraw York River Yorktown
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Stran 72 - That the force to be left to cover Washington shall be such as to give an entire feeling of security for its safety from menace.
Stran 30 - I am glad to learn that you are pressing forward reinforcements so vigorously. I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and take Richmond the moment McCall reaches here and the ground will admit the passage of artillery.
Stran 87 - ... instructions for posting the troops as they arrived. I then returned to Haxall's, and again left for Malvern soon after daybreak. Accompanied by several general officers, I once more made the entire circuit of the position, and then returned to Haxall's, whence I went with Captain Rodgers to select the final location for the army and its depots.
Stran 71 - That the means of transportation, sufficient for an immediate transfer of the force to its new base can be ready at Washington and Alexandria to move down the Potomac ; and
Stran 78 - Had McClellan massed his whole force in column, and advanced it against any point of our line of battle, as was done at Austerlitz, under similar circumstances, by the greatest captain of any age, though the head of his column would have suffered greatly, its momentum would have insured him success and the occupation of our works about Richmond, and consequently the city, might have been his reward.
Stran 26 - The only available means, therefore, of uniting our forces at Fair Oaks for an advance on Richmond soon after the battle was to march the troops from Mechanicsville and other points on the left bank of the Chickahominy down to Bottom's bridge, and thence over the Williamsburg road to the position near Fair Oaks, a distance of about twenty-three miles.
Stran 60 - By the last extract it will be seen that, during the latter part of February and early part of March, the attack of the Merrimac was daily expected, and, by Mr. Fox's letter, so far from the Navy Department depending on the Congress and Cumberland to
Stran 34 - On the 26th, the day upon which I had decided as the time for our final advance, the enemy attacked our right in strong force, and turned my attention to the protection of our communications and depots of supply.
Stran 56 - Support of him had been made one of the articles of the conservative electoral programme. His dismissal was taken as a sign that the President had thrown himself entirely into the arms of the extreme radical party, 14 and that the attempt to carry out the policy of that party would be persisted in.