Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Fitz-John Porter” in chapter 2.16 of Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1:
...as notified also at dawn by two negroes that the enemy had gone.
McClellan, taken thus by surprise, needed time to think and time to interpret Johnston's design.
It might be a ruse.
So he put Fitz-John Porter 's division in the Confederate works to hold them against a possible return.
He got Franklin with his fine body of fresh men ready to send in transports up the York, with reserves to follow, and nav...
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