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The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Another plan of the campaign. (search)
iver, either to Covington or Newborn. The marching distance for either column would not be over one hundred or one hundred and fifty miles, and could easily be accomplished in a week's time. There are excellent wagon roads on the proposed routes, which at this season were in good order. It is the opinion of Gen. McClellan that this demonstration can be made, and the forty thousand troops brought in this way before Richmond by the 1st of July, in time to co-operate with the forces of General Patterson from the North and General Butler from the East. The plan has been submitted to General Scott, and if he approves of it, it will be carried into execution. The Washington correspondent of the same paper gives an idea of what old Fuss and Feathers thinks of these busy writers: General Scott was heard to say yesterday that he would have captured the rebels at Harper's Ferry, and all their munitions of war, had it not been for the newspaper press (in their anxiety to give ear