...mmander-in-Chief, he had the right so to act, is unquestioned; but that he erred in exercising that right is clear to all who followed the history of events, from that time to the end of the war. Mr. Davis insists, that though the generals he met at Fairfax Court-House were of opinion that it were better to run the risk of almost certain destruction fighting upon the other side of the Potomac, rather t...