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John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 12: West Virginia. (search)
oint training and varied experience-Captain George B. McClellan. He was also a personal favorite o and prompted by directions from Washington, McClellan, on the 26th, ordered two regiments to crosslence; and in furtherance of this object General McClellan ordered additional forces into the State regiments at Philippi, confronting Garnett; McClellan Field of the West Virginia battles. direo pursue, should they retreat. Meanwhile McClellan himself moved to Buckhannon with some seven ns proposed a plan to turn the position, and McClellan (with some reluctance, it is said) permitted thirty-five, with about twenty wounded. McClellan had moved all his force up to Pegram's frontly 12th, sent a proposal of surrender to General McClellan, who, on the following morning (July 13twenty killed and ten wounded of the rebels. McClellan had ordered yet another column to be gathere on the first day of November following. McClellan's campaign in West Virginia ends with the de[9 more...]
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 13: Patterson's campaign. (search)
se of the South, the loss of five or six thousand men would be more so. And if they remain here, he added, they must be captured or destroyed very soon after General McClellan's arrival in the valley. The opinion was evidently based on the current rumors that McClellan would bring Western troops to join Patterson. This decidedMcClellan would bring Western troops to join Patterson. This decided warning had its effect on the rebel authorities, and under date of June 13th they authorized Johnston to retire upon Winchester, after destroying everything at Harper's Ferry, whenever the position of the enemy shall convince you that he is about to turn your position. But they coupled the permission with another strong reminder:erson to enable him to fight a battle, the latter once more retired to the north bank of the Potomac. For the moment military attention was directed elsewhere. McClellan was preparing his campaign in West Virginia; McDowell was strengthening the Federal occupation of Arlington Heights and Alexandria; the President and General Sco
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 14: Manassas. (search)
, it was General Scott's opinion that the Government ought not to engage in any military undertakings with the three months volunteers, beyond those to which these forces had been already assigned and distributed, namely: to protect Washington and fortify Arlington Heights; to garrison Fort Monroe and, if chance should offer, recapture the Gosport Navy Yard at Norfolk; to hold Baltimore and Maryland; to prosecute Patterson's campaign against Harper's Ferry; to recover West Virginia through McClellan's campaign; to guard the Ohio line, and control Kentucky and Missouri. Larger and more distant operations, he believed, ought to be undertaken only with new armies formed of the three years volunteers, giving the summer to drill and preparation, and entering on combined movements in the favorable autumn weather. Important reasons, partly military, partly political, conflicted with so deliberate a programme. As events had shaped themselves, it seemed necessary to aid Patterson. The p
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 17: conclusion. (search)
tial notice to Baltimore, called reinforcements from Harrisburg and New York, and suggested to McClellan to come down to the Shenandoah Valley with such troops as can be spared from Western Virginia. preparation for the worst, and in addition to all possible precautions for local defence, General McClellan was called to Washington to take command, Mc-Dowell being continued in charge of the defenp and estimate of General Scott, and with the prestige of his recent success in West Virginia, McClellan's arrival was hailed by officials and citizens with something more than ordinary warmth and samies on the Virginia side of the Potomac, once more became a great military camp. Here, under McClellan's personal supervision, grew up that famous Army of the Potomac, about which future volumes ofis army, and placing it in rear of Washington. This, writes Johnston, we thought would compel McClellan to fight with the chances of battle against him. Success would bring Maryland into the Confede
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Index. (search)
first movement against, 162 et seq.; description of, 175 et seq. Manchester, Eng., cotton operators of, 79 Martinsburg, W. Va., 162, 163 Maryland, attitude of, with regard to secession, 52, 83, 80; rebel conspiracies to gain, 107, 108; Union enlistments in, 131 Mason, Senator, 25, 91, 142 Massachusetts Eighth Infantry, 92, 103 Massachusetts Sixth Infantry, 84; attack upon, in Baltimore, 85 et seq.; map of its route through Baltimore, 85, 99 McCauley, Commandant, 96 McClellan, Gen. George B., placed in command of Dept. of the Ohio, 140; in West Va., 143, 140 et seq., 153 et seq.; appointed to command the army of the Potomac, 207, 208 McDowell, General, Irvin, in command at Arlington Heights, 173; his plan and movements, 173 et seq.; his report cited, 175; plan of battle at Bull Run, 177; change in his plans, 179, 181; his action during and after the battle, 181-205; in charge of the Virginia defences, 208 McLean's Ford, 176, note McRee, Fort, 38 Me