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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 15: the Maryland campaign. (search)
objected to the movement on Harper's Ferry Lee thinks the occasion timely for proposal of peace and independence Confederates singing through the streets of Fredericktown McClellan's movements cautious marches Lee's lost order handed to the Federal chief at Frederick. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at theand on the lips of every man from General Lee down to the youngest drummer. Our chief could have safely ordered the ranks to break in Virginia and assemble in Fredericktown. All that they would ask was a thirty minutes plunge in the Potomac to remove some of the surplus dust, before they encountered the smiles of tie winsome lasston, which was vigilant and pushing, sent frequent reports of his steady progress. In the afternoon Pleasonton and the Ninth Corps under General Reno entered Fredericktown. This advance, by the National road, threatened to cut off two of Stuart's cavalry regiments left at the Monocacy Bridge. To detain the enemy till these were
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 20: review of the Maryland campaign. (search)
nd comfortable pasture-lands. Propitious also was the prospect of swelling our ranks by Maryland recruits. At the head of the army of sixty thousand men encouraged, matured, and disciplined by victory stood the Confederate chief, challenging on its own soil the army that had marched to conquer the Southern capital. On the 7th he pitched his bivouac about Frederick City. On the 8th he made his salutatory to the people in these words: Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, Near Fredericktown, Md., September 8, 1862. To The People of Maryland: It is right that you should know the purpose that brought the army under my command within the limits of your State, so far as that purpose concerns yourselves. The people of the Confederate States have long watched with the deepest sympathy the wrongs and outrages that have been inflicted upon the citizens of a commonwealth allied to the States of the South by the strongest social, political, and commercial ties. They have seen with