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ke must be laid down. On the 31st day of October, 1861, Lieutenant-General Scott addressed a letter to the Secretary of War, in which he reive service. The letter was laid before a Cabinet meeting, and General Scott was placed on the retired list of the army, with the full pay answered in appropriate terms. In the official order announcing General Scott's retirement, the President of the United States said, in languhe American people will hear with sadness and deep emotion that General Scott has withdrawn from the active control of the army, while the Pren assailed by parricidal rebellion. Upon the retirement of General Scott, General McClellan, by a general order dated November 1, was dig to the cause of truth and honor. Such has been the career of Winfield Scott, whom it has long been the delight of the nation to honor as a ssing no more than the exact truth:-- With the retirement of General Scott came the executive duty of appointing in his stead a general-in
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Appendix. Oration at West Point. (search)
In long-distant ages, when this incipient monument has become venerable, moss-clad, and perhaps ruinous, when the names inscribed upon it shall seem, to those who pause to read them, indistinct mementos of an almost mythical past, the name of Winfield Scott will still be clear-cut upon the memory of them all, like the still fresh carving upon the monuments of long-for-gotten Pharaohs. But it is time to approach the present. In the war which now shakes the land to its foundation, the regulat Wagner and cross. Beneath remote battle-fields rest the corpses of the heroic McRea, Reed, Bascom, Stone, sweet, and many other company officers. Besides these were hosts of veteran sergeants, corporals, and privates, who had fought under Scott in Mexico, or contended in many combats with the savages of the far West and Florida, and, mingled with them, young soldiers who, courageous, steady, and true, met death unflinchingly, without the hope of personal glory. These men, in their more
ting lie National party Platforms of 1852 Gen. Scott election of Pierce and King. but, whatevntial candidate, Mr. Fillmore had 133 votes, Gen. Scott 131, Mr. Webster 29. On the next, Gen. ScotGen. Scott had 133, and Mr. Fillmore but 131. These proportions were nearly preserved through three or four days--Gen. Scott gaining slightly and unsteadily on Mr. Fillmore--till, on the fiftieth ballot, Gen.Gen. Winfield Scott received 142, and on the fifty-second 148. On the next, he was nominated; having 1g party, and the integrity of the Union. Gen. Scott made haste to plant himself unequivocally anhey made their gain wholly at the expense of Gen. Scott. When the polls were closed and the result mmed up as follows: For Pierce, 1,601,274; for Scott, 1,386,580; for Hale, 155,825; Pierce over ScoScott, 214,694; over Scott and Hale together, 58,896. And, whatever else the Election might have meanScott and Hale together, 58,896. And, whatever else the Election might have meant, there was no doubt that the popular verdict was against Slavery agitation, and in favor of maint
f the 23d--the day of her election aforesaid-Gen. Scott gave the order for an advance; and, before mdirectly to Winchester from Martinsburg; and Gen. Scott wrote back to say that, if he found that movmovement to Charlestown he first proposed to Gen. Scott was intended to be. * * Question by the ? A week is enough to win a victory. * * Winfield Scott. To this, Patterson responded as follement, by its Editor, of a conversation with Gen. Scott at his own dinner-table on the Tuesday beforand very nearly the language of a portion of Gen. Scott's conversation on the occasion referred to. lt with it: I do not believe that it was Gen. Scott's plan. I do not think he would promulgate cape themselves scot free — not only free from Scott, but from all our other Generals. They wish tny such plan as that which The Times says is Gen. Scott's plan of carrying on the war would leave th sturdily resisted. III. The failure of Gen. Scott to send forward with Gen. McDowell a force a[25 more...]
than twenty thousand good and well-disciplined men. This opinion was concurred in by all the officers of his command, and their memoranda on the subject were made inclosures of Major Anderson's letter. The whole was immediately laid before Lieut.-Gen. Scott, who at once concurred with Major Anderson in opinion. On reflection, however, he took full time, consulting with other officers, both of the Army and of the Navy, and, at the end of four days, came reluctantly but decidedly to the same coould go. I asked his consent, also, to obtain from the military authorities a pass. Having jurisdiction on the other side of the Potamac, they were to be consulted, and the necessary formalities observed. The President authorized me to say to Gen. Scott that I had conversed with him, and that, while he gave no sanction whatever to my visit to Richmond, he did not object to my going there on my own responsibility. Mr. May carefully avoided all disclosure of the purport of his conferences wi
dispelled all lingering illusions as to the capacity of Gen. Scott for the conduct of a great war. Though it was still deemer was felt by every intelligent Unionist. It was he, Winfield Scott, and none other, who had precipitated a third of our fr desired or expected any such conflict as this. It was Gen. Scott who had given the orders under which Gen. McDowell advanand of the order for battle; but arrived too late to see Gen. Scott and obtain it. Badly as Patterson had behaved, he had reported, on the 18th, by telegraph to Scott, his flank movement to Charlestown; which, any one could see, left Gen. Johnston an the 20th--the day before Bull Run — he had telegraphed to Scott that Johnston had actually departed on that errand. Gen.Gen. Scott, in commenting on Gen. Patterson's testimony in a deliberately written statement, made to the Committee on the Conduccommenced as early, I think, as the 18th of July. Though Gen. Scott remained nominally in chief command until the last day o
ered to make an attack on Manassas, and that Gen. Scott had given him till 12 o'clock to be master of Beauregard's lines. If Gen. Scott ordered the attack at all, I venture to say he was merely the msaddle-horse. When I spoke with officers at Gen. Scott's Headquarters of the expedition, it struck may happen. But my friend got his pass from Gen. Scott, who was taking the whole affair of Bull Runficer passed me through on the production of Gen. Scott's safeguard. The lights of the city were inun, and by saying, See the result of forcing Gen. Scott against his wishes. Of the Cabinet, Mr. Chaortification and despondency in Washington. Gen. Scott, whether he disapproved, as it is said, the affirmed that up to 8 o'clock in the evening Gen. Scott believed in the ultimate success of the Unit adjusted. It is so generally asserted that Gen. Scott did not approve the advance, for which his ps an alarm that the enemy were advancing. General Scott and his staff were roused up in the night [4 more...]
Ohio regiments were again sent forward, this time to assist in building a bridge across the run on the Warrenton road, by the side of the stone bridge known to be mined. A blunder, in that the last reserve was sent forward at all. It should have been retained to guard the rear of the left, and every other regiment on the field should have been promptly recalled over the route by which it had advanced, and ordered only to maintain such positions as rested on a supported, continuous line. Gen. Scott says, to-day, that our troops had accomplished three days work, and should have rested long before. But McDowell tried to vanquish the South in a single struggle, and the sad result is before us. As it was, Capt. Alexander, with his sappers and miners, was ordered to cut through the abatis by the side of the mined bridge, in the valley directly before us, and lay pontoons across the stream. Carlisle's artillery was detailed to protect the work, and the Ohio and Wisconsin reserve to su
Doc. 144.-General Scott's orders. General orders no. 12Headquarters of the army, Washington, July 30, 1861. Searches of houses for arms, traitors, or spies, and arrests of of fenders, in such matters, shall only be made in any department by the special authority of the commander thereof, excepting in extreme cases admitting of no delay. By command of Lieut. Gen. Scott. E. D. Townsend, Asst. Adjt.-Gen. General orders no. 13.Headquarters of the army, Washington, July 31, 1861. It has been the prayer of every patriot that the tramp and din of civil war might at least spare the precincts within which repose the sacred remains of the Fatherited States troops in that direction, the General-in-Chief does not doubt that each and every man will approach with due reverence and leave uninjured, not only the Tomb, but also the House, the Groves, and Walks which were so loved by the best and greatest of men. By command: Winfield Scott. E. D. Townsend, Asst. Adjt.-Gen.
n and 200 horses — some places as many as six horses lying side by side. It is supposed their loss is over 5,000 men killed and wounded, and they took somewhere near 1,000 live Yankees prisoners. Oh, they were whipped decently. They chased old Scott so close, he had to leave his coach, and lost his epaulettes; and if reports are true, he lost one of his cowardly legs. Our regiment took the famous Sherman's Battery. Well, we have taken near 50 pieces of rifled cannon, and run them clean offan the regiment) whipped the Ellsworth Zouaves, that much-dreaded band of ruffians. Yes, I have seen them myself — yes, more than a hundred of them, as high as six in a bunch, dead as a door nail. They had 75,000 men against us, and so sure was Scott of success, it is reported he brought up one hundred ladies from Washington to see him conquer Southerners;--(but some one got hurt.) Jeff. Davis came up here on Sunday, and was on the field himself. Gen. Jackson was wounded, two fingers shot of