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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 1: effect of the battle of Bull's Run.--reorganization of the Army of the Potomac.--Congress, and the council of the conspirators.--East Tennessee. (search)
lace of snow! This relative condition of the parties was temporary. The loyal people instantly recovered from the stunning blow, Five days after the Battle of Bull's Run, the Secretary of State wrote to Mr. Adams, the American Minister in London, saying: Our Army of the Potomac, on Sunday last, met a reverse equally severe and unexpected. For a day or two the panic which had produced the result was followed by a panic that seemed to threaten to demoralize the country. But that evil hasthe day of the battle, Beauregard had only a single day's rations for his troops. Statement of General Thomas Jordan, then chief of Beauregard's staff, in Harper's Magazie, XXXI. 610. Jordan says: Flour bought by speculators in the Valley and London was carried to Richmond, sold to the Subsistence Bureau, and transported back to Manassas. For weeks afterward this state of things continued, and it was impossible for the army to move forward with safety, under such circumstances. Late in
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 6: the Army of the Potomac.--the Trent affair.--capture of Roanoke Island. (search)
ed among the British cruisers, and captures were made under it before its existence was known in London I! For that treachery, English statesmen and publicists offered the selfish excuse that it was B(immediately after the arrival of the passengers of the Trent), men were engaged in the Tower of London in packing twenty-five thousand muskets to be sent to Canada. On the 4th, December, 1861. a ros of your legation, bringing with you the archives of the legation, and to repair immediately to London; if, however, you should be of opinion that the requirements of Her Majesty's Government are subr. Seward, the Secretary of State, in a confidential note to Mr. Adams, the American Minister in London, See page 567, volume I. alluded to the affair, and The Union Generals. George W. Childs Psappointment. They had tried to fan the flame of discord between the Cabinets of Washington and London. In England, Liverpool was the focus of efforts in aid of the rebellion. There the friends of