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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 14: fall of 1862 (search)
ty among the principal officers of his army. To bring the matter to an issue, Burnside tendered his resignation, to be accepted in case it was not deemed advisable for him to cross the river. He then returned and hurried his preparation. On Jan. 20, he put his army in motion. Positions for 184 guns had been selected, covering the approaches to the points chosen for crossing, and roads had been found and opened as secretly as possible. But, nevertheless, the Federal activity had been noten of the army, as the Mud march, and which remains a striking exemplification of the enormous difficulties incident to winter campaigning in Va. Burnside's plan had been a good one, and his army, with the 11th and 12th corps, had numbered on Jan. 20, 152,516 present for duty, besides 45,239 in the defences of Washington. But for the rain-storm — the Act of God— he certainly had reasonable ground to hope for success. But he was not disposed to lay the whole blame upon the storm. He had be