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The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], The late Yankee General Wadsworth. (search)
ws the zealous and ardent temperament which controlled his views of military duty, and which led him straight into the front of danger and death in this last great conflict. In the spring of 186. Gen. Wadsworth was appointed Military Governor of the District of Columbia; and on the advance by Gen. McClellan to Manassas, and subsequently to the Peninsula, Gen. Wadsworth's command at ended to Occoquan Bay: and for the range of duty embraced in this wide territory, he was left on the 2d of April, 1862, with some 15,000 infantry and about 4,000 artillery, and of this force one fourth was ordered to the Peninsula, leaving the defences of Washington with a garrison of less than half what he considered requisite. In the winter of 62-3, after his defeat as candidate for Governor of this State, he passed several months in the field, and was engaged at the battle of Chancellorship. He was charged later in the season with a mission to the southwest and the Gulf States, in connection with t