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...recorded. The events which followed, however, failed to support the general. Ian received orders to "cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or...Your army must move now while the roads are good." 25 A week later, when nothing had developed, Lincoln sat down and wrote one of his "on bended knees"...

...went to see McClellan himself, and soon after he told Halleck to telegraph Little Mac and order him to "cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south" and to do so immediately. Halleck did so but McClellan maddeningly did not move and instead asked for...

...would not misconstrue their conversations, Lincoln had Halleck telegraph him the following Monday that "the President directs that you cross the Potomac...Your army must move now while the roads are good." Weeks went by, however, and McClellan found all manner of excuses for inaction — lack of supplies,...

...not move forward, move rapidly and effectively."11 On October 6, the president directed McClellan to "cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or...Your army must move now while the roads are good." McClellan resisted, however, the president's orders. He held the army in Maryland until the final week...

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...to Gen. McClellan : WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1862. I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...enemy and Washington, and cover the latter by your operation, you can be reenforced with thirty thousand men. If you move up the vailev of the Shenandoah,...