Letter of the Secretary of War: Transmitting Report of the Orgranization of the Army of the Potamac, and of Its Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, Under the Command of Maj. Gen. George B. McClennan, from July 26, 1861, to November 7, 1862Gorn. Printing Office, 1864 - 242 頁 |
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第 35 頁
... flank companies of each regiment to be armed with Dahlgren boat guns , and carbines with water - proof cartridges ; the other companies to have such arms as I may hereafter designate ; to be uniformed and equipped as the Rhode Island ...
... flank companies of each regiment to be armed with Dahlgren boat guns , and carbines with water - proof cartridges ; the other companies to have such arms as I may hereafter designate ; to be uniformed and equipped as the Rhode Island ...
第 45 頁
... flanks ; an attack on his left flank alone involves a long line of wagon communication , and cannot prevent him from collecting for the decisive battle all the detach- ments now on his extreme right and left . " Should we attack his right ...
... flanks ; an attack on his left flank alone involves a long line of wagon communication , and cannot prevent him from collecting for the decisive battle all the detach- ments now on his extreme right and left . " Should we attack his right ...
第 46 頁
... flank , it would become necessary to carry Brentsville at any cost , for we could not leave it between the right flank and the main body . The final movement on the railroad must be determined by circumstances existing at the time ...
... flank , it would become necessary to carry Brentsville at any cost , for we could not leave it between the right flank and the main body . The final movement on the railroad must be determined by circumstances existing at the time ...
第 47 頁
... flanks perfectly covered by the fleet . 66 Our During the whole movement our left flank is covered by the water . right is secure , for the reason that the enemy is too distant to reach us in time ; he can only oppose us in front ; we ...
... flanks perfectly covered by the fleet . 66 Our During the whole movement our left flank is covered by the water . right is secure , for the reason that the enemy is too distant to reach us in time ; he can only oppose us in front ; we ...
第 53 頁
... flank of the enemy , this movement no doubt assisted in determining the evacuation of his lines on the 8th and 9th of March . On my return from Harper's Ferry , on the 28th of February , the prepara- tions necessary to carry out the ...
... flank of the enemy , this movement no doubt assisted in determining the evacuation of his lines on the 8th and 9th of March . On my return from Harper's Ferry , on the 28th of February , the prepara- tions necessary to carry out the ...
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10-pounder Parrott 66 HEADQUARTERS 66 Major advance Alexandria Antietam Aquia Aquia creek arrived artillery attack August bank battery battle Bottom's bridge bridge brigade Burnside camp campaign Captain cavalry Chickahominy column Couch's division Court House creek crossed defence depots direction enemy enemy's field fire flank Fort Magruder Fort Monroe Franklin Frémont front G. B. MCCLELLAN garrison general-in-chief guard guns H. W. HALLECK Harper's Ferry HEADQUARTERS ARMY Heintzelman Hooker infantry intrenchments James river Major General H. W. Major General MCCLELLAN Manassas Maryland miles Monroe morning move movement necessary night occupied officers operations Peninsula Pope Porter position possible Potomac President Quartermaster railroad Rappahannock re-enforcements rear rebels reconnoissance regiments Richmond road Rohrersville Savage's station Secretary Secretary of War sent Sharpsburg soon Sumner supplies telegram telegraphed tion transportation troops United States Army United States cavalry vicinity Virginia wagons Warrenton Washington Williamsburg York volunteers Yorktown
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第 43 頁 - My dear Sir : — You and I have distinct and different plans for a movement of the Army of the Potomac — yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahannock to Urbana, and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River; mine to move directly to a point on the railroad southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours.
第 176 頁 - 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.
第 43 頁 - 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.
第 219 頁 - 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.
第 145 頁 - 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 organization of States, or forcible abolition of slavery, should be contemplated for a moment.
第 96 頁 - York rivers, than by a land march. In order, therefore, to increase the strength of the attack upon Richmond, at the earliest moment, General McDowell has been ordered to march upon that city by the shortest route. He is ordered, keeping himself always in position to save the capital from all possible attack, so to operate, as to put his left wing in communication with your right, and you are instructed to cooperate, so as to establish this communication as soon as possible. By extending your right...
第 4 頁 - ... to detach largely from their main body in order to protect such of their cities as may be threatened, or else landing and forming establishments on their coast at any favorable places that opportunity might offer. This naval force should also cooperate with the main army in its efforts to seize the important seaboard towns of the rebels.
第 47 頁 - He must do this; for should he permit u# to occupy Richmond, his destruction can be averted only by entirely defeating us in a battle, in which he must be the assailant. This movement, if successful, gives us the capital, the communications, the supplies of the rebels; Norfolk would fall; all the waters of the Chesapeake would be ours; all Virginia would be in our power, and the enemy forced to abandon Tennessee and North Carolina.
第 84 頁 - And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. / am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I' always insisted that going down the Bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting, and not surmounting, a difficulty; that we would find the same enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments...
第 156 頁 - You, General, certainly could not .have been more pained at receiving my order, than I was at the necessity of issuing it. I was advised by high officers, in whose judgment I had great confidence, to make the order immediately on my arrival here, but I determined not to do so until I could learn your...