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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 20 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the first conflict. (search)
e master who commanded him to march on to Richmond, and he had to obey. Neither the good sense nor the experience of General Scott had any power to resist the impetuous current. The government of the White House, beset by impatient members of Congress, feared lest further temporizing should chill the military ardor of the North, and preferred the chances of a disaster to the political difficulties that inaction created. When McDowell alleged the greenness of his troops, as they say in English, the reply was, You are green, undoubtedly, but the enemies are green also,— you are all green. Report on the Conduct of the War, vol. II. p. 38. And when he assembled his troops for the purpose of manoeuvring them, cries rose on every side against the general whom they accused of seeking to pave the way for a dictatorship. Unable to persuade his superiors that with troops incapable of regular marches, and without sufficient means of transportation, all the advantage would be on the si