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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 3 (search)
absent from their stations without authority, and indicating by their behavior an utter want of discipline and organization. McClellan: Report, p. 9. To correct this absence a stringent system of military police was at once adopted, and this measure was followed by an immediate improvement in the morale of the troops. The root of the evil, however, lay deeper—lay in the really vicious system governing the primary organization of regiments and the appointment of their officers. Prince de Joinville: The Army of the Potomac, p. 17; Lecomte: Guerre des Etats-Unis, p. 55. In just views regarding this, as regarding most other matters relating to the war, the people were much in advance of the Government; and one of the most curious instances of this is a formal memorial at this time addressed to the President by property holders of New York, regarding the system of officering regiments. This paper, marked by the soundest good sense, was published in the New York journals of Augu
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
by skilfully manoeuvring fifteen thousand men he succeeded in neutralizing a force of sixty thousand. It is perhaps not too much to say that he saved Richmond; for when McClellan, in expectation that Mc-Dowell might still be allowed to come and join him, threw forward his right wing, under Porter, to Hanover Courthouse, on the 26th of June, the echoes of his cannon bore to those in Richmond who knew the situation of the two Union armies the knell of the capital of the Confederacy. Prince de Joinville: The Army of the Potomac, p. 112, note. McDowell never went forward—was never allowed, eager though he was, to go forward. Well-intentioned though we must believe the motives to have been of those who counselled the course that led to the consequences thus delineated, the historian must not fail to point out the folly of an act that must remain an impressive illustration of what must be expected when men violate the established principles of war. Iv. The battle of Fair Oaks. I