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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 6 6 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 3 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 2 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 2 2 Browse Search
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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 3 (search)
al McCall was ordered to make, with his division, a movement on Drainesville, for the purpose of covering reconnoissances in all directions to be made the following day. These reconnoissances were successfully accomplished on the 20th; and General Mc-Clellan, anticipating that this demonstration would have the effect of inducing the enemy to abandon Leesburg, directed General Stone, whose division of observation was guarding the left bank of the Potomac above Washington, with headquarters at Pohat produced this long and unfortunate inaction, and which will be found in the already noted change of the plan of operations. There is little doubt that, at the period to which this recital has extended—namely, the close of the year 1861—General Mc-Clellan had fully resolved upon acting against the enemy by a flank movement by water instead of assailing him by direct attack; and as the adoption of the former course had a most important bearing on the relations between the Executive and the ge
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
, finding their centre routed, also beat a hasty retreat. The Confederate loss was heavy, numbering over five hundred; Hancock's total loss was one hundred and twenty-nine. Shortly after the action was decided, General Smith, by order of General Mc-Clellan, who had reached the front and appreciated the position secured by Hancock, brought up strong re-enforcements. At the same time the firing ceased in front of Fort Magruder, and the troops, wet, weary, and hungry, rested on their arms. Butourths of a mile in area; the right was refused, curving backward through a wooded region towards a point below Haxall's Landing, on James River. Judging from the obvious lines of attack that the main effort would be made against his left, General Mc-Clellan posted on Malvern Hill heavy masses of infantry and artillery. Porter's corps held the left, and the artillery of his two divisions, with the artillery reserve, gave a concentrated fire of sixty guns. Couch's division was placed on the ri
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 6 (search)
onist. But to permit the secessionists to move at all, it was necessary that Lee should first of all demonstrate his ability to remain in the State by overthrowing the powerful Union force that was moving to meet him; while the lukewarm, whom the romance of the invasion might have allured, were repelled by the wretchedness, the rags, and the shocking filth of the army of liberation. In the dark hour when the shattered battalions that survived Pope's campaign returned to Washington, General Mc-Clellan, at the request of the President, resumed command of the Army of the Potomac, with the addition thereto of Burnside's command and the corps composing the late Army of Virginia. Whatever may have been the estimate of McClellan's military capacity at this time held by the President, or General Halleck, or Mr. Secretary Stanton, or the Committee on the Conduct of the War, there appears to have been no one to gainsay the propriety of the appointment or dispute the magic of his name with t
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
le, 293; his absence during movements on Gettysburg, 338; bivouacks within Union lines at Auburn, 381; killed at Yellow Tavern, Virginia, 459. Subsistence—see Commissariat. Sumner, General, in command of pursuit of Johnston, 112; at battle of Williamsburg, 118; at battle of Savage's Station, 156; report on his desire to occupy Fredericksburg, 234; on the morale of the army, 256. Three months campaign, the, in 1861, 26. Tucker, Mr., Assistant Secretary of War, directed, with General Mc-Clellan, the transportation to the Peninsula, 100. Turner's Gap, McClellan's right and centre at, 202; the Confederate force at, 202; battle of, 203. Turenne's counter to Montecuculi in 1675, 147. Twiss on justifiable desolations by armies, 560. Valley of Humiliation, the Shenandoah Valley called, 318. Virginia, her vote to secede, 13; the theatre of the war, 13, 15, 18; river and mountain defensive systems of, 19; preparations for war—--Governor Letcher's call for, 26; first en