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G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 5: (search)
cils of Philadelphia, a deputation of which went to Washington and gave the sword to him in person, at his house. In a very brief reply to the complimentary address which accompanied the gift, he said, I ask in the future forbearance, patience, and confidence. With these we can accomplish all. On the 7th, 11th, and 12th days of November, 1861, respectively, letters of instruction were addressed by the commander-in-chief to General Buell, in charge of the Department of the Ohio, and General Halleck, in that of the Department of Missouri. These were general in their scope, rather indicating what it was desirable to accomplish, and pointing out certain principles of government and administration, than going into details which had been matters of oral discussion between him and these officers. A brief extract from the letter to General Buell, of the date November 7, will give an impression of their spirit and purpose:-- It is possible that the conduct of our political affairs in
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 6: (search)
, our centre connecting Burnside with Buell both by Raleigh and Lynchburg, Buell in Eastern Tennessee and North Alabama, Halleck at Nashville and Memphis. The next movement would be to connect with Sherman on the left, by reducing Wilmington and South Carolina and Georgia; to push Buell either towards Montgomery or to unite with the main army in Georgia; to throw Halleck southward to meet the naval expedition from New Orleans. We should then be in a condition to reduce at our leisure alnd of the Department of the Potomac. Ordered, further, That the departments now under the respective commands of Generals Halleck and Hunter, together with so much of that under General Buell as lies west of a north-and-south line indefinitely dr Tennessee, be consolidated, and designated the Department of the Mississippi; and that, until otherwise ordered, Major-General Halleck have command of said department. Ordered, also, That the country west of the Department of the Potomac and eas
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 8: (search)
mors began to fly through the air. General McClellan knew his old classmate well enough to know that he was not a man to lose any time, and that, sooner or later, he would be a formidable element of danger on our right flank. His communications to the Government at Washington are full of earnest, almost passionate, entreaties for reinforcements, and in them he restates the reasons why he deems it important that his hands should be strengthened. He suggests that portions of the army of General Halleck, then in the Southwest, might be detached for this purpose. The replies of the Secretary of War are friendly and encouraging in tone. On the 11th of June he tells General McClellan that McCall's force, forming part of McDowell's corps, was on its way, and that it was intended to send the rest of McDowell's corps to him as speedily as possible. General McCall's division, numbering about eleven thousand men, arrived on the 12th and 13th; but these were the only reinforcements that Gene
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 9: (search)
ent was adopted, by the appointment of Major-General Halleck to the post of General-in-Chief of the 27th. The result of this visit was that General Halleck, after full consultation with his officerGeneral Halleck's surmise or conjecture. General Halleck, sitting in his office at Washington, migin patience under the rash expressions of General Halleck's impatience, which, too, may have had thequently written to the Secretary of War, General Halleck says, The evacuation of Harrison's Landinto the movement of the main army; and yet General Halleck sets his hand and gives his official sancy. G. B. McClellan, Major-General. Major-General H. W. Halleck, Washington. To which the folloforces. Do so with all possible rapidity. H. W. Halleck, Major-General. Major-General G. B. McClele. G. B. McClellan, Major-General. Major-General H. W. Halleck, Washington, D. C. On the 16th e it. G. B. McClellan, Major-General. Major-General Halleck, Washington, D. C. As no reply was[12 more...]
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 10: (search)
the 1st of September General McClellan went into Washington, where he had an interview with General Halleck, who instructed him verbally to take command of the defences of the place, with authority e same day General McClellan waited upon the President of the United States, at the house of General Halleck, and in obedience to a message from him. He was then and there told by the President that h deference to the strong sentiment of the army than as a spontaneous movement of their own. General Halleck's mind was darkened with apprehensions for the safety of the capital, and he feared that Ge enemy. This should not be so. You should keep me advised of both, so far as you know them. H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. Major-General G. B. Mcclellan. In reply to this curt and ungracious mre his appointment would gratify the whole army. George B. McClellan, Major-General. Major-General H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. This suggestion was adopted, and General Hooker was made a bri
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 11: (search)
with the President in these instructions. H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. Major-General McClellan, and in the appendix to the testimony of General Halleck, and is summed up in a letter of his, addh, which was published in connection with General Halleck's letter to the Secretary of War, before a thousand serviceable cavalry-horses. General Halleck, in a letter to General McClellan dated Oer 14. In the original despatch to which General Halleck's letter is a reply, one thousand and fifcClellan, Major-General commanding. Major-General H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief, Washington. e, and on what lines you propose to march. H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. Major-General George B. McClellan. General Halleck's reply is ambiguous, wary, cold; but General McClellan had a righttrengthened by a subsequent despatch from General Halleck, dated October 26, in which he says,-- Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. Major-General McClellan[1 more...]
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 12: (search)
it? Again, about this time General McClellan ceased to communicate with the general-in-chief. About what time? Two dates Lad just before been mentioned,--October 26 and November 3; and there is nothing to indicate which of the two was meant. If it were the latter, General McClellan could not have had time to send many communications to anybody after that day, as he was deprived of his command on the 7th: if it were the former, then the statement is not true; for in the appendix to General Halleck's testimony, as published by the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War, there appear no less than six despatches addressed to him by General McClellan after October 26. General McClellan's communications to the President were generally in reply to inquiries or suggestions from the latter, whose restless and meddlesome spirit was constantly moving him to ask questions, obtrude advice, and make comments upon military matters, which were as much out of his sphere as they wer
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 13: (search)
es, who as a strategist had no rival but Napoleon himself, is thought to have sometimes shown a want of quickness and decision on the field of battle. That General McClellan is capable of planning and organizing a campaign, of designating movements to be executed by others, can be doubted by no man of candid mind who will read his memorandum on the conduct of the war, addressed to the President, and to be found in the fifth chapter of the present work, and his letters of instruction to Generals Halleck, Buell, Sherman, and Butler, contained in his Report. Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius. To handle troops well on the field of battle, to retain self-possession amid all the currents of a heady fight, to take advantage of any mistake made by the enemy, to repair the mischances and disasters in his own ranks, requires a man of no common capacity; but yet higher powers are demanded of