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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, I. The Army of the Potomac in history. (search)
e betwixt those points of mighty opposites, the North and the South,—names which, hitherto of no more than political import, now assumed the new and dread significance of belligerent Powers. Thus, by her will and by fate, Virginia became the Flanders of the war. And already, from the moment the events in Charleston harbor made war flagrant, armed men, in troops and battalions, hurried forward, from the North and from the South, to her borders. An equal fire animated both sections. President Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand men; Mr. Davis, for a hundred thousand,—armies of a proportion never before seen on the Western continent. Yet such was the spontaneous alacrity with which on each side the summons was obeyed, that within the space of a few weeks, these limits were greatly overpassed, and an additional call for a half million men on the part of the North, and a levy en masse on the part of the South, met a like response. Then by that new agent of transport that has wr
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 3 (search)
al McClellan to a memorandum drawn up by President Lincoln, suggesting a movement on Manassas. Thithe Army of the Potomac being then sick, President Lincoln called in several of the general officerary, 1862. It appears that at this time President Lincoln, troubled in spirit at the condition of t was submitted by the present writer to President Lincoln, during the summer of 1864, and he indorefore or on the 22d day of February next. Abraham Lincoln. The operation here indicated is thatities for prompt execution of this order. Abraham Lincoln. It is obvious, therefore, that the Presd, etc. History of the Administration of President Lincoln, p. 225. the result was that the Presideetween Washington and the Chesapeake Bay. Abraham Lincoln. L. Thomas, Adjutant-General. It is h they gained over a character like that of Mr. Lincoln, the concession is unfortunate for his repun he assumed command, and without which, as Mr. Lincoln justly added, he could not with so full eff[2 more...]
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
ow be readily acknowledged without imputing any really unworthy motive to President Lincoln. When Mr. Lincoln saw the Army of the Potomac carried away in ships out Mr. Lincoln saw the Army of the Potomac carried away in ships out of his sight, and learnt that hardly twenty thousand men had been left in the works of Washington (though above thrice that number was within call), it is not difficly its offensive intent, than if actually held in front of Washington. This Mr. Lincoln neither knew nor could be expected to know; and it is precisely because the t govern military affairs, is strikingly illustrated in a sentence of one of Mr. Lincoln's dispatches to General McClellan about this time. Referring to McClellan'scClellan: Report, p. 106. Nothing could be more naive than this statement of Mr. Lincoln's policy of an equable distribution of favors. But while this maxim is justandoah Valley, by the line of the Manassas Gap Railroad. Dispatch from President Lincoln: Report on the Conduct of the War, vol. i., p. 274. McDowell obeyed, but
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, V. Pope's campaign in Northern Virginia. August, 1862. (search)
y the elevation, two years afterwards, of General Grant to the lieutenant-generalship. General Halleck added his strident voice in favor of the withdrawal of the army from the Peninsula, although, owing to a sincere anxiety now cherished by Mr. Lincoln that General McClellan should be allowed his own way, he was not at first able to make the order imperative. The President, in response to General McClellan's appeals for re-enforcements to enable him to renew operations against Richmond, hadwould find itself lying in inaction amid the swamps of the James during the hot months of August and September. This was the reason why several of the officers of the Army of the Potomac—among them Generals Franklin and Newton—expressed to President Lincoln, during a visit he made to McClellan's camp in July, 1862, an opinion in favor of withdrawing the army from the Peninsula. 1 make this statement on the authority of the officers named. If reenforcements were to be expected, they were altog
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 7 (search)
you are now upon. The difficulties you point out pertaining to the Fredericksburg line are obvious and palpable. But now, as heretofore, if you go to the James River, a large part of the army must remain on or near the Fredericksburg line to protect Washington. It is the old difficulty. When I saw General Franklin at Harrison's Landing on James River, last July, I cannot be mistaken in saying that lie distinctly advised the bringing of the army away from there. Yours, very truly, A. Lincoln. headquarters left Grand division, December 26, 1862. to the President: I respectfully acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22d inst. In arguing the propriety of a campaign on the James River, we supposed Washington to be garrisoned sufficiently, and the Potomac impassable except by bridges. The fortification of Harper's Ferry is another important requisite. These matters were considered as of course, and did not enter into our discussion of the two plans of campaign.
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
was at this time reduced, as he de dares, to an effective of eighty thousand men, Letter from General Hooker to President Lincoln, May 13, 1863: My marching force of infantry is cut down to about eighty thousand men. The cavalry corps which, on's—were returned. The one was from the President, disapproving the project, and couched in that quaint imagery which Mr. Lincoln was wont to employ in the expression of his thoughts on the gravest subjects. If Lee, said he, should leave a rear foble to be torn by dogs front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or to kick the other. Dispatch from President Lincoln to General Hooker, June 5. The other reply was from General Halleck, and it expressed, in solemn military jargon that this was not within the compass of a vigorous stroke. The fruit seemed so ripe, so ready for plucking, said President Lincoln to General Meade, soon after, that it was very hard to lose it. Descending, now, to the question of details: as
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
ouncils at Washington there ruled alternately an uninstructed enthusiasm and a purblind pedantry. At the period already reached in this narrative, the conviction had become general throughout the North that this crude experimentalism was seriously jeoparding all hope of a successful issue of the war. This prompted the nomination of Major-General Grant to the grade of lieutenant-general— in which rank he was confirmed by the Senate on the 2d March; and on the 10th, a special order of President Lincoln assigned him to the command of all the armies of the United States. The elevation of General Grant to the lieutenantgeneral-ship gave perfect satisfaction throughout the North—a sentiment arising not more from the conviction that it put the conduct of the war on a sound footing, than from the high estimate held by the public of General Grant's military talent. The country had long ago awaked from its early dream of a coming Napoleon, and there was no danger of its cherishing any s
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
campaign on the James—see James River. Calls for troops by President Lincoln, 14, 29, 30. Campaign of Manoeuvres, 373; of manoeuvres critvidence on Burnside's orders at Fredericksburg, 245; reply to President Lincoln's answer to him and General Smith, 265. Franklin's and Smille, Stuart's report of, 293. Jacobinism of Congress, note on Mr. Lincoln's phrase, 80. James River open by fall of Norfolk, 120; Fort tcher, Governor, of Virginia, calls for State militia, 26. Lincoln, President, calls for troops, 14, 29, 30; correspondence with Mc-Clellan; plan of direct attack via Manassas, 69; correspondence with President Lincoln on an advance, 70; change of plan of advance-consequent delay Rappahannock Station, the battle of, 387. Raymond, Mr., on Mr. Lincoln's opinion of McClellan's plan of advance, 87. Reams' Station, Ha65; popular anger at Confederate blockade of the Potomac, 75; President Lincoln's order to retain sufficient force to secure, 89; Washington