 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 strani
...WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1862. I am instructed to telegraph to you a3 follows : The President diycts that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Tour army must move now, while the roads aro good. If you cross the river between the enemy and Washington,... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 150 strani
...^ I am Iiastrueted tq telegraph yen as follows: The President directs that you cross the IVJO* mac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Your army must move now, wMUs ih« roads are good. Tf vou crps^ the river bei Wyeji the enemy and Was'hingtoii, aiid cover the... | |
 | William Swinton - 1864 - 40 strani
...command an nrmy 150,( strong. On the 6th of October he was peremptorily ordered to "cross the Potomac i give battle to the enemy, or drive him South. Your army must move now wl the roads are good." Week after week passed without the order being obeyed To cover up his disobedience... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1864 - 256 strani
...the 6th of October, as stated above, I was ordered by the President, through his general-in-chief, to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Two lines were presented for my choice : 2d. To cross between the enemy and Washington — that is,... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 324 strani
...return to Washington, caused his general-in-chief to issue an order commanding General McClellan to " cross the Potomac, and give battle to the enemy or drive him south." The President, the secretary of war, and General Halleck must have known, when this order was issued,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1864 - 406 strani
...disobedience of orders, it should be stated that the President's peremptory instructions of October 6, to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south, were never distinctly repeated. From the moment of receiving them, General McClellan set himself diligently... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 256 strani
...the 6th of October, as stated above, I was ordered by the President, through his general-in-chief, to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Two lines were presented for my choice : 1st. Up the valley of the Sheuandoah, in which case I was... | |
 | Edwin Winchester Stone - 1864 - 448 strani
...impatient of further delay, *and on the 6th October, the President directed General McClellan to " cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south." By correspondence published in the report of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, it appears to... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 280 strani
...the 6th of October, as stated above, I was ordered by the President, through his general-in-chief, to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Two lines were presented for my choice : 1st. Up the valley of the Shenandoah, in which case I was... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 344 strani
...return to Washington, caused his general-in-chief to issue an order commanding General McClellan to " cross the Potomac, and give battle to the enemy or drive him south." The President, the secretary of war, and General Halleck must have known, when this order was issued,... | |
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The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south. 
