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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Introduction (search)
Introduction The two practical problems of the General Reading the distant message: an officer of the Federal Signal Corps How the Secret service gave rise to the complete photographic record of soldier life: photographer and soldier, 1862, as the armies paused after McClellan's attempt on Richmond It is quite astonishing to discover that the immense collection of photographs reflecting the soldier life of 1861-65 so intimately and vividly had its rise in secret-service work. It is literally true, however, that Alexander Gardner's privileges of photographing at headquarters and within the Federal lines, at a thousand historic spots and moments, resulted entirely from the desire of the authorities to insure the strictest secrecy for their movements. Obviously, any commander was pretty much at the mercy of the individual who copied the maps, charts, and the like for his Secret Service. Through an untrustworthy or careless employee the most zealously guarded secrets
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Military information and supply (search)
erwhelming force at his back, well organized and equipped, better disciplined than were the Southern troops late in 1861, and their equal at least in experience, McClellan's splendid divisions, fully one hundred and forty thousand strong, were held up in front of Washington by not more than forty-seven thousand Confederates, all because agents induced the overcautious commander to believe he was confronted by fully two hundred thousand men. Again, on the Peninsula, when McClellan could have smashed through to Richmond by simple weight of numbers—such had been the casualties of battle in the Southern lines—the specter of Southern superiority in numbers unnervl army supplies at Nashville Guarding Federal army supplies at City Point Again, after Antietam, what tremendous tales of Southern strength must have held McClellan an entire month along the north bank of the Potomac, while Stuart, with less than two thousand troopers, rode jauntily round about him unscathed. It was not unt
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The business side of war-making (search)
e number of men an equivalent distance over the roads of the country. Unfortunately, however, campaign plans, more frequently than otherwise, called for long marches between points not connected by rail. Water transportation was used by General McClellan to good advantage in beginning the Peninsula campaign; after that, the Army of the Potomac, once having made the acquaintance of Virginia mud, retained it to the end. The wagon roads of the Old Dominion were tested in all seasons and by eved part for three years, May 28, 1861. It moved to Washington on May 30th. The first Camp of the regiment was on Meridian till, near Washington, till July 1st. The live-long days were spent in constant drill, drill, drill during this period. McClellan was fashioning the new levies into an army. The total population of the Northern States in 1860 was 21,184,305. New England's population was 3,135,283, or about one-seventh of the whole. New England's troops numbered 363,162, over one-tenth o
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Marshalling the Federal volunteers (search)
soldiers This regiment was organized at Bangor, Me., for three months service, and left the State for Willett's Point, N. Y., May 14, 1861. Such was the enthusiasm of the moment that it was mustered into the United States service, part for two and part for three years, May 28, 1861. It moved to Washington on May 30th. The first Camp of the regiment was on Meridian till, near Washington, till July 1st. The live-long days were spent in constant drill, drill, drill during this period. McClellan was fashioning the new levies into an army. The total population of the Northern States in 1860 was 21,184,305. New England's population was 3,135,283, or about one-seventh of the whole. New England's troops numbered 363,162, over one-tenth of its population, practically one-seventh the total muster of forces raised in the North during the war, namely, 2,778,304. The New England population was distributed as follows: Maine, 628,279; Massachusetts, 1,231,066; Vermont, 315,098; New Hampsh
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Marshaling the Federal army (search)
es — in this case A tents. They accompanied McClellan to the Peninsula, and served in all the greaar. It was even more marvelous, later, when McClellan had come to organize the vast array into brinnsylvania politician, was still in office. McClellan, the young, commanding general was riding diusic and to view the martial pageant. Often McClellan, always with his staff, would watch the work weight during the process used by, General George B. McClellan to make an army out of the raw matehours hard battalion drill. By the time General McClellan was ready to move his army to the Peninsof our people that about the knoll where sat McClellan, in statuesque and soldierly pose, his aidesut a little group. It was characteristic of McClellan that he should accept this homage quite as hhat he did not seem to mind it. I would hold McClellan's horse for him, he was sadly saying, just ocommon country. The Fifty-fifth accompanied McClellan to the Peninsula, and took part in the despe
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Confederate in the field (search)
ted all preconceived ideas of what a battle was like. It was the beginning of the series which resulted in frustrating McClellan's campaign on the Peninsula and raising the siege of Richmond, in 1862. We had been holding the left of the Confederat road for the artillery! A wild scramble up the banks ensued, under the apprehension that we were about to be raked by McClellan's guns. But the real intent was to advance a section of our brigade battery traveling in our rear, to feel a thin beltrmy went to Yorktown, evacuated that position before the advance of McDowell's Corps, which was moving overland to join McClellan north of the Chickahominy and complete the investment of Richmond on that side. This movement relegated to the rear thing — in was rather rough—it was the beginning of a prolonged spell of wet, raw weather, which is so often mentioned in McClellan's reports of his operations on the Peninsula-and, with little notion of how to adapt ourselves to the situation, we suf
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), With the veteran armies (search)
teers It was a fine, enthusiastic army that General McClellan finally marched forward on Manassas in the ear, encouraged by the example of many a general like McClellan, Porter, Phil Kearny, and Hooker, who believed in ears above, was one of many able generals, such as McClellan, Porter, Phil Kearny, and others, who believed in uch of the picturesque remained with the army when McClellan floated it around to the Peninsula and lost priceling Blue and Gray. Three winters had the men of McClellan, of Hooker, and of Meade dwelt in their guarded liay. Once had the grand Army of the Potomac, led by McClellan, turned the opposing line, tried the water route, t had been ruined while the center and left, under McClellan's own eye, had been held passive in front of a skeent masters. They had seen the stars of McDowell, McClellan, Pope, Burnside, and Hooker, one after another, efen a host of things taught to them as essential in McClellan's training camps that first winter around Washingt
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Part II (search)
l War. He was conducting a successful agency in Chicago when his friend, George B. McClellan, sent for him to be chief detective in the Department of the Ohio. Shortly after, he went to Washington and under General McClellan directed the secret-service operations in the Army of the Potomac, besides doing extensive detective work for the provost-marshal at the Capital. As a stanch admirer of McClellan, Pinkerton refused to continue in the military end of the service after the general's remlose of the war, when he returned to his agency in Chicago. At the tent of McClellan's chief detective, 1862 Only a handful of people, in North and South togetkerton. As the head of his famous detective agency, he had been known by General McClellan before the war. He was chosen as the head of Little Mac's Secret Service, and remained until McClellan himself retired in November, 1862, only a month after this picture was made. Directly behind Major Allen stands young Babcock (in the
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Federal Secret service (search)
re very loyal to the Union, and their services were invaluable to McClellan during the spring and summer of 1862. After Pinkerton left the aatly overestimated the size of the Army of Northern Virginia, and McClellan acted as if dealing with an overwhelming opponent. Had he discovg under orders from Provost-Marshal Andrew Porter, as well as General McClellan and the heads of the Departments of State and War. Several of Burnside's fleet is to engage the batteries on the Potomac, and McClellan and company will move on Centreville and Manassas next week. This information comes from one of McClellan's aides. in the Secret-service work at Washington the famous name of Allan Pinkerton is conspicurtment routine, and he soon left to become chief detective to General McClellan, then in charge of the Department of the Ohio. when this Silitary concerns of the Government was brief. In November, 1862, McClellan, to whom Pinkerton was sincerely attached, was removed. Indignan
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Signal Corps (search)
oward the Confederate lines—1861 When General McClellan was rapidly organizing his army from thes had proved indispensable to the success of McClellan in changing his base from York River to Jamealvern Hill threatened the rout of the army, McClellan was aboard the gunboat Galena, whose army si officer pierce receiving a message from General McClellan at the elk mountain station after the ba officer pierce receiving a message from General McClellan at the elk mountain station after the bale for the Peninsula campaign of 1862, where McClellan utilized them, strictly army work being suppion through messages flagged from the army. McClellan was thus enabled not only to give general oring kettle at their feet. Yet their lot, as McClellan's army advanced toward Richmond and later, wered Washington and attacked Richmond, where McClellan first used the telegraph for tactical purposthe invaders, but this battle-office enabled McClellan to keep in touch with the situation and ensu[12 more...]
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