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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 8: commands the army defending Richmond, and seven days battles. (search)
is war; but so long as I can perform any service to the country I am content, he could not resist giving Pope a slight slap, and adds: When you write to Rob again (his youngest son, who was a private in the Rockbridge Battery) tell him to catch Pope for me, and also to bring in his cousin Louis Marshall, who, I am told, is on his staff. I could forgive the latter fighting against us, but not his joining Pope. Out in the West, too, President Lincoln found his commander in chief, and on July 11th ordered that Major-General Henry W. Halleck be assigned to command the whole land force of the United States as general in chief, and that he repair to the capital. The Confederates were re-enforced by these appointments of Halleck and Pope. If the latter was, as Swinton, the historian of the Army of the Potomac, puts it, the most disbelieved man in the army, the former was a perpetual stumbling-stone in the path of the field commanders of the Federal army. His position was a most diffi