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The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
for the division and corps command consulted with them. They unanimously voted against the attack. I then went over to see the officers of the command on the other side, and that the same opinion prevailed among them. I then sent for Gen. Franklin, who was on the left, and he was of exactly the same opinion. This caused me to decide that I ought not to make the attack I had contemplated, and, besides, inasmuch as the President, of the U. States had told me not to be in haste in makingthe town and the bridge heads, but should keep the bridges there for future operations in case we wanted to cross again. I accordingly ordered the withdrawal, leaving Gen. Hooker to conduct the withdrawal of our forces from the town, and Gen. Franklin to conduct it on our left. During that evening I received a note from Gen. Hooker, and about 10 o'clock at night Gen. Butterfield came over with a message from Gen. Hooker, stating that he (Gen. Hooker) felt it his duty to represent to me th
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Still Later from the North. (search)
at any time within three days after his arrival if the pontoons had been there," Gen. Sumner adds that the army was "demoralized" in consequence of the battle, and that "there was a great deal too much croaking and not sufficient confidence" Gen. Franklin testifies that if the pontoons had been ready at the time of the arrival of the army the troops "would have immediately crossed the driving the enemy — perhaps five hundred or one thousand men — and they would have occupied those very heighto the Generals who do plan and fight them. The necessary supplies were withheld from McClellan at Harper's Ferry, at the time that the radical journals were clamoring against him for not moving on, and so it has been in the case of Burnside Gen. Franklin swears that, notwithstanding the delay of the pontoons, the position of the enemy would have been captured had more, men been on the field on the day of battle. Whose fault is that? Is it not boasted that we have 800,000 men in arms? Is it