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The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Recollection from Hooker's history. (search)
hen our troops first lanced at the Peninsula as regards the strength of the place, and the relative strength of the opening forces? A.--I did not go down for some three weeks after Gen. McClellan went down. He want, down wish the army from Alexandria, return vessels stopped at Bed's Ferry, whose I was, and took my division down. General McClellan took down about 90,000 and when I joined him I took 11,000 down to him. I did not see the returned, but that was the understanding there. Franklin afterwards joined with his division. At the time that General McClellan landed with this large army there was something between 8,000 and 16,000 at Yorktown. I have heard it estimated as low as 8,000 and as high as 15,000. Q.--What course would you have advised at the time of the landing on the Peninsula under the circumstances? A — What I subsequently did will, I think, convey an answer to that question. I attacked with my single division a line of works at Williamsburg strong