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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 16 (search)
ieving not merely a great but a crushing victory. I have Lee's army in one hand and Richmond in the other, was his exulting remark to those around him as he rode up to the single but capacious brick house — at once mansion and tavern — that then, with its appendages, constituted Chancellorsville. But the order he issued thereupon evinces an amazing misapprehension of his real position and its perils. It reads as follows: headquarters army of the Potomac, camp near Falmouth, Va., April 30, 1863. It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the Commanding General announces to the army that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him. The operations of the 5th, 11th, and 12th corps have been a succession of splendid achievements. By command of Maj.-Gen. Hooker. S. Williams, Ass't Adjt.-Gen. A General who has but eig