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June 20th (search for this): article 13
great numbers and extensive works. If ten or fifteen thousand men have left Richmond to reinforce Jackson, it illustrates their strength and confidence. After to-morrow we shall fight the rebel army as soon as Providence will permit. We shall await only a favorable condition of the earth and sky, and the completion of some necessary preliminaries." The returns of Gen. McClellan to the Adjutant. General's office give the following as the strength of the army on the Peninsula on the 20th of June Present for duty, 115.102; special duty, kick, and in arrest. 14,225; absent, 29,511--total, 126,838. On the 24th and 25th of June Gen. McClellan telegraphs the Secretary of War that he is informed by describers and contrabands that Jackson is contemplating an attack upon his right and rear. As this dispatch of Gen. McClellan, and the one of the President in reply, are dated immediately previous to the "seven days battle," they are given here in full. Received 8:50 P. M. McC
March 13th (search for this): article 13
verthrowing or of interfering with the rights and established institutions of these States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union in all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired, and that when these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease. [Cheers] "Now is it now, gentlemen?" asked Mr. Toncey. His speech was very able, but could not carry Connecticut. It is reported in full in the New York World, of March 13th. Affairs at Suffolk. The Baltimore American contains a letter from Suffolk, Va, dated April 7, which says: The enemy, in considerable force, are hovering a short distance from our pickets, and, on the afternoon of the 6th they captured a Sergeant and four privates of the mounted firing Deserters come in daily; and the energetic Provost Marshal of the post. Major Smith, of the 112th New York volunteers, has recently made some important "Seceall" arrests. From deserters, who
June 25th (search for this): article 13
n to the Adjutant. General's office give the following as the strength of the army on the Peninsula on the 20th of June Present for duty, 115.102; special duty, kick, and in arrest. 14,225; absent, 29,511--total, 126,838. On the 24th and 25th of June Gen. McClellan telegraphs the Secretary of War that he is informed by describers and contrabands that Jackson is contemplating an attack upon his right and rear. As this dispatch of Gen. McClellan, and the one of the President in reply, are dated immediately previous to the "seven days battle," they are given here in full. Received 8:50 P. M. McClellan's, June 25, 6.15 P. M. I have just returned from the field, and find your dispatch in regard to Jackson. Several contrabands, just in, give information concerning the supposition that Jackson's advance is at or near Hanover Court House, and that Beauregard arrived with strong reinforcements in Richmond yesterday. I incline to think that Jackson will attack my right
June 26th, 1862 AD (search for this): article 13
here it belongs. Since I commenced this I have received additional intelligence confirming the supposition in regard to Jackson's movements and Beauregard. I shall probably be attacked to-morrow, and now go to the other side of the Chickahominy to arrange for the defence on that side. I feel that there is no use in my again asking for reinforcements. Geo. B. McClellan, Major General. Hon, E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. The auteur of the President is as follows: Washington, June 26, 1862. Your three dispatches of yesterday in relation to the affair, ending with the statement that you completely succeeded in making your point, are very gratifying. The later one, of a quarter past six P. M., suggesting the probability of your being overwhelmed by 900,000 men, and talking of whom. the responsibility will belong, pains me very much. I give you all I can and act on the presumption that you will do the best you can with what you have; while you continue, ungenero
April 30th, 1862 AD (search for this): article 13
e, but was recalled by McClellan, who "hoped that nothing had been done (by H.) to give the enemy information of the line of operation of the army." It was certain that Magruder had not more than 7,000 men, and this was confirmed by "Hon. Lemuel J. Bowden, of Williamsburg. " Notwithstanding all this McClellan determined on a siege, and here is the way it resulted: The returns in the Adjutant General's office, signed by General McClellan and his Adjutant General, show that, on the 30th of april, 1862, the forces on the Peninsula under General McClellan amounted to 112,362 present for duty. On the 1st of May the President telegraphs to General McClellan: "Your cell for Parings guns from Washington alarms me, chiefly because is argues indefinite procrastination. Is anything to be done?" On the night of the 3d and the morning of the 4th of May the enemy evacuated Yorktown without loss. One of the witnesses testifies that Gen. McClellan was very much chagrined and mortified
Halleck (search for this): article 13
en the troops would be ordered to fall back during the night to the now position selected by him. In that manner the army reached the James river. After getting to Harrison's Landing McClellan applied for 50,000 reinforcements to enable him to resume active operations General Halke's, when he visited the army, informed Gen. McClellan that the Government could furnish him only 20,000 additional troops. Gen. McClellan consented to renew operations with that number of reinforcements, and General Halleck left with that understanding. But the day that he left Gen. McClellan wrote to him. asking for 15,000 or 20,000 troops from the Western army, in addition to those promised to him urging very strongly that they should be brought here temporarily, to be returned to the West after Richmond should have been taken. As this could not be done, the order was given for the withdrawal of the army, as rapidly as possible, in order to cooperate with the forces under General Pope, then in the pres
Rust (search for this): article 13
ansions of Col. Sanderson and Judge Burritt, both rebuts. and scoundrels of the deepest dye. It gives me pleasure to report that the negro troops took no part whatever in the perpetration of this vandalism. They had nothing whatever to do with it, and were simply silent spectators of the splendid but sad spectacle. The 5th Connecticut charge it upon the 8th Maine, and the 8th Maine hurl it back upon the 6th Connecticut. After the fires in different parts of the city had broken out Col. Rust ordered every man to be shot who should be found applying the torch. But the order came too late. The Provost Marshal and his guard could not shoot or arrest the wind. No human power could stay its ravages. Ex-Secretary Toncey's speech. On the 11th of March ex Secretary Toncey and ox Governor T. H. Seymour made admirable speeches to an immense must meeting of the Democracy at Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Toncey recalled the fact that the House of Representatives, on the 22d of Ju
March 28th (search for this): article 13
urrounded it by forces which can press upon it from any quarter, at the same time severing into isolated portions the rebel territory and destroying their means of intercommunication by which alone they have hitherto been enabled to meet us in force wherever we have presented ourselves. and by which alone they have been able to feed and supply their armies. The burning of Jacksonville, Fla.--Yankee account. A correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Jacksonville, Fla., March 28, gives a record of Yankee arson and outrage perpetrated in that beautiful State. which excels in enormity any of the devilish deeds which have heretofore reached us. It will be seen that these outrages were perpetrated by the 6th Connecticut and 8th Maine regiments, and that these demons have gone up to Charleston and Savannah Should a fight occur at either place, and any members of the regiments specified are captured, we trust our officers will not loose sight of the atrocities perpetrat
Magruder (search for this): article 13
4,000 troops to keep open the navigation of the Potomac, which the report says "caused the President manifest disappointment." After his army got to the Peninsula, Gen. Heintzelman received information that the rebels had only 10,000 troops at Yorktown, and the place might be taken. He advanced to make a heavy reconnaissance, but was recalled by McClellan, who "hoped that nothing had been done (by H.) to give the enemy information of the line of operation of the army." It was certain that Magruder had not more than 7,000 men, and this was confirmed by "Hon. Lemuel J. Bowden, of Williamsburg. " Notwithstanding all this McClellan determined on a siege, and here is the way it resulted: The returns in the Adjutant General's office, signed by General McClellan and his Adjutant General, show that, on the 30th of april, 1862, the forces on the Peninsula under General McClellan amounted to 112,362 present for duty. On the 1st of May the President telegraphs to General McClellan: "Y
19th (search for this): article 13
the attack that day, especially as I was sure of the arrival that day of two fresh divisions, amounting to about fifteen thousand men. As an instance of the condition of some of the troops that morning I happen to recollect the returns of the first corps--Gen. Hooker's — made the morning of the 18th, by which there were about 3,500 men reported present for duty. Four days after that the returns of the same corps showed 13,500. I had arranged, however, to renew the attack at daybreak on the 19th, but I learned some time during the night or early in the morning that the enemy had abandoned his position. It after wards proved that he moved with great rapidity. and, not being encumbered by we gone, was enabled to get his troops across the river before we could do him any serious injury. I think that taking into consideration what the troops had gone through. we got as much out of them in this Antietam campaigns as human endurance would bear. The committee give the first correct
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