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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
McClellan while the siege was in progress, and he held it on shipboard with the view of intrusting to it the task which the entire corps of McDowell had originally been expected to perform. Subsequently, however, he concluded that it was unequal to the work. But, re-enforced by another division, might it not have been sufficient? In proof of this it may be pointed out that, on the retreat of Johnston from Yorktown, Franklin's division Franklin's division reached the Peninsula on the 22d of April. alone was assigned to a similar and equally difficult duty—to move on the flank of the Confederate army by way of West Point. The question now remains, whether an attempt should have been made to break the enemy's lines. The total force under Magruder at the time of the arrival of the Army of the Potomac before his position was, according to Magruder's own testimony, eleven thousand men. More than half this force, however, was on garrison duty. I was compelled, says he, to place in