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March 12th, 1885 AD (search for this): chapter 32
furnished to McClellan's command. It is not probable that Mr. Lincoln's attention was ever called to the existence of this order. For it is a remarkable fact than, when he finally consented to displace McClellan, he gave the order that he be relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac --a command which Gen. McClellan had not held by any authority since Aug. 30. B.--Capt. William H. Powell, of the 4th Regular Infantry, in a letter to the Century, dated Fort Omaha, Neb., March 12, 1885, thus describes this scene [Century, January, 1886, p. 473]: About four o'clock on the next afternoon, from a prominent point, we descried in the distance the dome of the Capitol. We would be there at least in time to defend it. Darkness came upon us, and still we marched. As the night wore on we found at each halt that it was more and more difficult to arouse the men from the sleep they would fall into apparently as soon as they touched the ground. During one of these halts, wh
August 30th (search for this): chapter 32
brought on the army and country, so that, when before the committee, he had forgotten the countless facts which prove his statement untrue. From the 26th to the 30th Aug. his despatches to McClellan recognized that officer as in command of his own Army of the Potomac. On the 24th McClellan, arrived at Acquia, had telegraphed him:the capital was lost. The President asked him if under the circumstances (to wit, the recent treatment of Stanton and Halleck, and the insulting general order of Aug. 30) he would resume command and do the best that could be done. The instant acceptance of this vast responsibility by McClellan puts at rest a falsehood published o McClellan, he gave the order that he be relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac --a command which Gen. McClellan had not held by any authority since Aug. 30. B.--Capt. William H. Powell, of the 4th Regular Infantry, in a letter to the Century, dated Fort Omaha, Neb., March 12, 1885, thus describes this scene [Cen
31st (search for this): chapter 32
e was not in command of any fortifications or any troops for the defence of anything. On the night of the 30th McClellan made a vain appeal to Halleck to be allowed to go to the front and be with his troops in battle. On the afternoon of the 31st, in reply to an order from Halleck, McClellan telegraphed him: Under the War Department order of yesterday I have no control over anything except my staff, some one hundred men in my camp here, and the few remaining near Fort Monroe. I have no control over the new regiments. . . . Their commanding officers, and those of the works, are not under me. At ten P. M. of the 31st Halleck replied to this: I have not seen the order as published (implying that he had seen it in Stanton's draft form), and adds: You will retain command of everything in this vicinity not temporarily to be Pope's army in the field. I beg of you to assist me in this crisis with your ability and experience. I am entirely tired out. This indefinite despatch was
August 31st (search for this): chapter 32
sm of the army the capital safe the order of Sept. 2 Halleck's testimony Stormy cabinet meeting. Late at night of Aug. 31, I think, Maj. Hammerstein One of my aides, whom I had sent to the front to bring me news as to the real state of afof these for future publication, leaving here only such and so many as will outline what the general did from Aug. 26 to Aug. 31. If no one else saw, it is clear from Mr. Lincoln's despatches to McClellan, and his acts on Sept. 2, that he saw and kdemonstrated beyond any dispute by the publication of his own correspondence with McClellan during the period Aug. 26 to Aug. 31, and by other proofs. It is charity to Gen. Halleck to suppose that his mind and memory were muddled by the fearful cat It may here be noted that Mr. Chase was in error when, on Sept. 19, he said (Warden, p. 480) that Halleck's telegram of Aug. 31, asking McClellan to help him, announced Halleck's surrender to McClellan. While Mr. Chase was right enough in thus con
September 2nd, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 32
this chapter. War Department, adjutant-general's office, Washington, Sept. 2, 1862. Maj.-Gen. McClellan will have command of the fortifications, of Washingide to Gen. Pope with the following letter: headquarters, Washington, Sept. 2, 1862. Maj.-Gen. John Pope, Commanding Army of Virginia: general: Gen. Halleckashington was safe. See note B. A. Note by the Editor.--This order of Sept. 2, 1862, was the last order ever issued to Gen. McClellan giving him any command. rm: headquarters of the Army, adjutant--general's office, Washington, Sept. 2, 1862. By direction of the President, Maj.-Gen. McClellan will have command ofrm following: War Department, adjutant--general's office, Washington, Sept. 2, 1862. Maj.-Gen. McClellan will have command of the fortifications of Washingtl. J. C. Kelton, then assistant adjutant-general, headquarters of the army, Sept. 2, 1862, with request that Col. E. D. Townsend number and issue the same. and have
April 3rd, 1879 AD (search for this): chapter 32
instatement of McClellan would prove a national calamity. Mr. Montgomery Blair, Postmaster-General, in private letters, from which, now in the hands of the editor, the following extracts are taken, says: Under date April 22. 1870: The bitterness of Stanton on the reinstatement of McClellan you can scarcely conceive. He preferred to see the capital fall. . . . McClellan was bound to go when the emergency was past, and Halleck and Stanton furnished a pretence. Under date April 3, 1879: The folly and disregard of public interests thus exhibited would be incredible but that the authors of this intrigue, Messrs. Stanton and Chase, when the result of it came, and I proposed the restoration of McClellan to command, and to prevent the completion of ruin by the fall of this capital, actually declared that they would prefer the loss of the capital to the restoration of McClellan to command. Yet these are the men who have been accounted by a large portion of our countrymen
August 26th (search for this): chapter 32
d, when aware of their blunder, threw the blame on McClellan. He arrived at Alexandria on the 26th Aug., under Halleck's direct command, who assumed the responsibility of everything, and declined touture publication, leaving here only such and so many as will outline what the general did from Aug. 26 to Aug. 31. If no one else saw, it is clear from Mr. Lincoln's despatches to McClellan, and hian had been in command ever since his arrival in Alexandria. He arrived at Alexandria on the 26th of Aug. The formal order was issued that he might have no difficulty with Gen. Pope's forces; that theyond any dispute by the publication of his own correspondence with McClellan during the period Aug. 26 to Aug. 31, and by other proofs. It is charity to Gen. Halleck to suppose that his mind and meConduct of the War is thus demonstrated. He, and he alone, was in command and responsible from Aug. 26 to Sept. 1. Gen. Halleck's verbal orders to Gen. McClellan on Sept. 1 gave the latter no con
January, 1886 AD (search for this): chapter 32
able that Mr. Lincoln's attention was ever called to the existence of this order. For it is a remarkable fact than, when he finally consented to displace McClellan, he gave the order that he be relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac --a command which Gen. McClellan had not held by any authority since Aug. 30. B.--Capt. William H. Powell, of the 4th Regular Infantry, in a letter to the Century, dated Fort Omaha, Neb., March 12, 1885, thus describes this scene [Century, January, 1886, p. 473]: About four o'clock on the next afternoon, from a prominent point, we descried in the distance the dome of the Capitol. We would be there at least in time to defend it. Darkness came upon us, and still we marched. As the night wore on we found at each halt that it was more and more difficult to arouse the men from the sleep they would fall into apparently as soon as they touched the ground. During one of these halts, while Col. Buchanan, the brigade commander, was resti
March 1st, 1886 AD (search for this): chapter 32
the form following: War Department, adjutant--general's office, Washington, Sept. 2, 1862. Maj.-Gen. McClellan will have command of the fortifications of Washington and of all the troops for the defence of the capital. By order of Maj.-Gen. Halleck. E. D. Townsend, A. A. Gen. The history of its origin and modification is certainly obscure. Little light is thrown on it by the following, which is an extract from an official letter from the adjutant-general's office, dated March 1, 1886, and signed J. C. Kelton, Assist. Adj.-Gen. Col. Kelton was the officer on Gen. Halleck's staff who had brought the intelligence of the condition of Gen. Pope's command on the morning of Sept. 2. It is therefore clear that the first draft of the order was made that morning; but whether before or after Gen. Halleck had consulted with Mr. Stanton does not appear. Col. Kelton says: It appears from the records that a draft of General Order No. 122 was written by Col. J. C. Kelton, the
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