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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 3: military operations in Missouri and Kentucky. (search)
tate Legislature with abject submission to every demand o Federal despotism, and woeful neglect of every right of the Kentucky citizens. It is well suggested that Mr. Breckinridge, in his exodus from Kentucky, perpetrated a serious blunder; Greeley's American Conflict, i. 615. for, had he, like other friends of the South, remained in Congress, he might have served the cause of the conspirators more efficiently. He was an able and adroit politician and legislator, but was an indifferent sorteenth Tennessee, and Major Butler, of the Eleventh Louisiana. Wright was a Democratic Congressman, and an intimate friend of Colonel Philip B. Fouke, of the. Illinois Volunteers. When they parted at the close of the session of 1860-61, says Mr. Greeley, (American Conflict, i. 597), Wright said to his friend, Phil, I expect the next time we meet it will be on the battle-field. Their next meeting was in this bloody struggle. The gun-boats had performed most efficient service in engaging th
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 16: the Army of the Potomac before Richmond. (search)
nts, he issued an order for the victorious army to fall back still farther General McClellan's Report, page 140. to Harrison's Landing, a point on the James a few miles below, and then returned to the Galena. Dr. Grieson's Diary, cited in Greeley's American Conflict, II. 167. This order produced consternation and the greatest dissatisfaction, for it seemed like snatching the palm of victory from the hand just opened to receive it. Even Fitz-John Porter's devotion to his chief was temporarily shaken by this order, which elicited his Bost indignant protest. --Greeley's American Conflict, note 43, page 167. General Kearney said, in the presence of several officers--I, Philip Kearney, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for X retreat. We ought, instead of retreating, to follow up the enemy and take Richmond; and in full view of all the responsibilities of such a declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason. --
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 17: Pope's campaign in Virginia. (search)
iew of all the testimony, and especially of that given in McClellan's Report, it does not seem to be a harsh judgment to believe that the commander of the Army of the Potomac and his friends were willing to see Pope defeated. Pope's appointment to the command, and his address to his Army on opening the campaign (see page 446), says a careful writer, had been understood by them as reflecting on the strategy of the Peninsula campaign; and this was their mode of resenting the indignity. --see Greeley's American conflict, II. 192. by order of General Halleck, the broken and demoralized Army was withdrawn within the fortifications around Washington the next day, Sept. 2, 1862. when it was allowed a brief rest. Pope now repeated with greater earnestness his request, made before he took the field, to be relieved of the command of the Army of Virginia, and allowed to return to the West, and it was granted. The Army of Virginia disappeared as a separate organization, and became a part
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 21: slavery and Emancipation.--affairs in the Southwest. (search)
k, hoping the wiser men among the insurgents might heed the threats contained in the muttering thunders of Congress, in which were concentrated the tremendous energies of the people against these cherished interests. This hesitancy produced great disquietude in the public mind. The more impatient of the loyal people began to accuse the President of not only faint-heartedness, but whole-heartedness in the cause of freedom, and charged him with remissness of duty. On the 9th of August Horace Greeley addressed an able letter to the President on the subject, through his journal, the New York Tribune, to which Mr. Lincoln made a reply, it giving him a good opportunity to define his position. In that reply he declared it to be his paramount object to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing a slave, I would do it, he said. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and l