The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1884 |
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advance arrived artillery Assistant Adjutant-General attack battery Bottom's Bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General Burnt Chimneys camp Capt Captain cavalry charge Chickahominy Colonel command commenced companies Creek depot detached directed dispatch duty enemy enemy's engaged field Fifth fire flank force Fort Magruder Fort Monroe forward front guns Hanover Court-House Harrison's Landing HDQRS HEADQUARTERS ARMY Heintzelman honor to report Hooker immediately infantry instant James River Keyes killed Lee's Mill Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel line of battle Magruder Major-General Massachusetts MCCLELLAN miles morning moved night o'clock p. m. obedient servant occupied opened ordered pickets placed Porter position Potomac railroad re-enforcements rear rebel received reconnaissance redoubt regiment Report of Brig respectfully Richmond rifle pits road Savage Station Second sent shell siege signal officer skirmishers Smith Smith's division soon station Sumner tion troops U. S. Army White House Williamsburg woods wounded yards York Infantry York River York Volunteers Yorktown
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第 15 頁 - I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as, in my most anxious judgment, I consistently can. But you must act.
第 74 頁 - Military power should not be allowed to interfere with the relations of servitude, either by supporting or impairing the authority of the master, except for repressing disorder, as in other cases.
第 73 頁 - War; as such it should be regarded, and it should be conducted upon the highest principles known to Christian civilization. It should not be a War looking to the subjugation of the people of any State, in any event. It should not be at all a war upon population, but against armed forces and political organizations. Neither Confiscation of property, political executions of persons, territorial organizations of States, or forcible Abolition of Slavery, should be contemplated for a moment.
第 81 頁 - All points of secondary importance elsewhere should be abandoned, and every available man brought here — a decided victory here, and the military strength of the rebellion is crushed — it matters not what partial reverses we may meet with elsewhere. Here is the true defence of Washington ; it is here, on the banks of the James, that the fate of the Union should be decided.
第 15 頁 - My explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell.
第 74 頁 - Unless the principles governing the future conduct of our struggle shall be made known and approved, the effort to obtain requisite forces will be almost hopeless. A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies.
第 83 頁 - It is by no means certain that the reduction of these fortifications would not require considerable time — perhaps as much as those at Yorktown. " This delay might not only be fatal to the health of your army, but in the mean time...
第 51 頁 - I will do all that a general can do with the splendid army I have the honor to command, and, if it is destroyed by overwhelming numbers, can at least die with it and share its fate. But if the result of the action which will probably occur to-morrow, or within a short time, is a disaster, the responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders; it must rest where it belongs.
第 68 頁 - Towards the northwest the plateau falls off more abruptly into a ravine which extends to James river. From the position of the enemy his most obvious...
第 27 頁 - At your earnest call for reinforcements, he is sent forward to co-operate in the reduction of Richmond, but charged, in attempting this, not to uncover the city of Washington, and you will give no order, either before or after your junction, which can put him out of position to cover this city.