...On the 6th of October General Halleck was instructed by the President to telegraph General McClellan as follows : " The President directs that you cross...and give battle to the enemy or drive him south." This, however, did not move McClellan. On the loth of October the rebel general, Stuart, crossed the...

...received the following communication : " WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1862. " Major-General MCCLELLAN : " I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The...Your army must move now while the roads are good. . . . " HW HALLECK, " General-in-Chief." the greater part of the efficient cavalry, was at Cumberland,...

...his victory, and Lincoln on the 6th of October, 1862, through ¿ten. Halleck, directed McClellan to "cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south." McClellan declined to obey. On the lOlh of October Gen. JE B. Stuart crossed the Potomac, going as...

...received the following communication : " WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1862. " Major-General MCCLELLAN : " I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The...Your army must move now while the roads are good. . . . " HW HALLECK, " General-in-Chief." At this moment the cavalry force was absent on general reconnoitring...

...the President's mind. Halleck telegraphed that, by order of the President, McClellan was directed to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south, that the army must move while the roads continued good, that if McClellan should move east of the Blue...

...into the river. So the Maryland campaign ended. In October, Gen. Halleck telegraphed to McClellan: " Cross the Potomac, and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south." McClellan crossed, and at Warrenton was " relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac." Hapless...

...October 6th, Halleck sent McClellan, by President Lincoln's direction, an order 4 requiring him to " cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south." He was told to move " now, while the roads were good." He was further informed that if he should so...

...nothing came of this, even. And so, at last, as a dernier ressort, on October 6, Halleck telegraphed him as follows : "The President directs, that you cross...and give battle to the enemy, or drive him South. * * * He is very desirous that your army move as soon as possible. * * * I am directed to add, that...

...something was, is evident from an order sent McClellan the day after he returned to Washington : " The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south." This was on October 6th. A week later, McClellan being still in camp, Mr. Lincoln wrote him the following...

...General McClellan received an order by telegraph from the General-in-Chief, HW Halleck, directing him to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him South ; that the army must move now while the roads were good. That the Army of the Potomac was waiting for...