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Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., Chapter 29: (search)
elay, as you assert — not an hour's — but everything has been and is being pushed as rapidly as possible to carry out your orders. The following report, made on the same day by the officer then in charge of the transports, exposes the injustice of the remark in the despatch of the general-in-chief, that, considering the amount of transportation at your disposal, your delay is not satisfactory : assistant quartermaster's office, Army of the Potomac, Harrison's Landing, Virginia, Aug. 10, 1862. Col. Ingalls, being himself ill, has requested me to telegraph to you concerning the state and capacity of the transports now here. On the night of the 8th I despatched eleven steamers, principally small ones, and six schooners, with five batteries of heavy horse-artillery, none of which have yet returned. Requisition is made this morning for transportation of 1,000 cavalry to Acquia creek. All the schooners that had been chartered for carrying horses have been long since discha