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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
to Fortress Monroe an army of one hundred and twenty-one thousand five hundred men, fourteen thousand five hundred and ninety-two animals, forty-four batteries, and the wagons and ambulances, ponton-trains, telegraph materials, and enormous equipage required for an army of such magnitude, and that all this was done with the loss of but eight mules and nine barges (the cargoes of which were saved), an intelligent verdict must certainly second the assertion of the Assistant Secretary of War, Mr. Tucker, whose administrative talent, in concert with General McClellan, directed this vast undertaking, that for economy and celerity of movement, this expedition is without a parallel on record. A European critic calls it the stride of a giant— and it well deserves that blazon. The van of the grand army was led by Hamilton's—afterwards Kearney's—division of the Third Corps (Heintzelman's), which embarked for Fortress Monroe on the 17th of March. It was followed by Porter's division on the 2<
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
command, 292; report of Jackson at battle of Chancellorsville, 293; his absence during movements on Gettysburg, 338; bivouacks within Union lines at Auburn, 381; killed at Yellow Tavern, Virginia, 459. Subsistence—see Commissariat. Sumner, General, in command of pursuit of Johnston, 112; at battle of Williamsburg, 118; at battle of Savage's Station, 156; report on his desire to occupy Fredericksburg, 234; on the morale of the army, 256. Three months campaign, the, in 1861, 26. Tucker, Mr., Assistant Secretary of War, directed, with General Mc-Clellan, the transportation to the Peninsula, 100. Turner's Gap, McClellan's right and centre at, 202; the Confederate force at, 202; battle of, 203. Turenne's counter to Montecuculi in 1675, 147. Twiss on justifiable desolations by armies, 560. Valley of Humiliation, the Shenandoah Valley called, 318. Virginia, her vote to secede, 13; the theatre of the war, 13, 15, 18; river and mountain defensive systems of, 19; prep