hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. You can also browse the collection for Alexandria Railroad or search for Alexandria Railroad in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
the overland route), makes public opinion hardly worth discussion. The distance to Richmond by this route, from any front held along the Rappahannock or Rapidan, is between sixty and seventy miles. This necessarily involves communications excessively long and difficult to maintain for an army dependent for its supplies on its wagons, while the march must be made in a region full of the finest defensive positions. Whether the movement be made by the Fredericksburg or by the Orange and Alexandria Railroad—the only two lines of manoeuvres available in the overland routepeculiar difficulties beset it on each. But assuming these to be severally overpassed, the successful execution of the long march only results in bringing the army abreast the fortifications of Richmond, within which the defending force, with its communications south and west all open and intact, might stand an indefinite siege. In other words, the aggressive army is brought to a dead-lock; and if it be attempted to und