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The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
idges there for future operations in case we wanted to cross again. I accordingly ordered the withdrawal, leaving Gen. Hooker to conduct the withdrawal of our forces from the town, and Gen. Franklin to conduct it on our left. During that evening I received a note from Gen. Hooker, and about 10 o'clock at night Gen. Butterfield came over with a message from Gen. Hooker, stating that he (Gen. Hooker) felt it his duty to represent to me the condition in which I was leaving the town and the Gen. Hooker, stating that he (Gen. Hooker) felt it his duty to represent to me the condition in which I was leaving the town and the troops in it. After a long consultation on the subject with Gen. Butterfield, I felt that the troops I proposed to leave behind would not be able to hold the town. I then partially decided to withdraw the whole command, which was a still more perilGen. Hooker) felt it his duty to represent to me the condition in which I was leaving the town and the troops in it. After a long consultation on the subject with Gen. Butterfield, I felt that the troops I proposed to leave behind would not be able to hold the town. I then partially decided to withdraw the whole command, which was a still more perilous operation. It commenced raining, which to some extent was assistance to us, but a very bad thing in the moving of troops. I thought over the matter for about two hours, and about 1 o'clock I sent an order to withdraw the whole force, which was
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Still Later from the North. (search)
ld have been permanent and successful" Again, he says: "I would like to impress as firmly upon the Committee as it is firmly impressed upon my mind the fact that this whole disputer has resulted from the delay in the arrival of the pontoons Whoever is responsible for that delay is responsible for all the disasters which have followed" This is plain speaking. And he adds, that he does not believe they could have crossed at the time they did had the enemy chosen to prevent is, General Hooker deposes, that Hallock, or Meigs, promised to have the pontoons down and everything ready in three days. When Sumner arrived there were only five hundred rebels at Fredericksburg; "but," he adds " the same mishap was made there that had been made all along through the war" From Gen. Halleck's own testimony it does not appear that he is of any use whatever at Washington. He acts the part of a mere clerk, copying orders but not seeing that they are carried out. He neither plans campai