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G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 6: (search)
ent (besides General McClellan) were Generals McDowell, Sumner, Heintzelman, Keyes, Franklin, Fitz-John Porter, Andrew Porter, Smith, McCall, Blenker, Negley, and Barnard. The President of the United States was also there. The plans of General McClellan were fully explained to the council, and the general question submitted to thentreville, or whether a movement should be made down to the Lower Chesapeake. After a full discussion, four of the officers — McDowell, Sumner, Heintzelman, and Barnard — approved of the former plan, and the remainder of the latter. The details were not considered as fixed; though it was generally understood that the point of dethe Army of the Potomac was withdrawn. In the first place, the city itself was defended by a strong system of fortifications, built under the directions of General Barnard, and sweeping round a line of thirty-three miles in extent. The troops which were assigned to garrison these fortifications were eighteen thousand in number,
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 7: (search)
This second, or retrospective, Report of General Barnard was made in January, 1863, at a time whenheir Proceedings, Part First, appended to General Barnard's testimony. The Report of the Committeeff during the Peninsular campaign. One of General Barnard's paragraphs which the Committee copy is ished at this retrospective confidence of General Barnard, because, on the spot, the engineer officdly expressed very different opinions. General Barnard further says, The siege having been deterpart. Upon the battle of Williamsburg, General Barnard says, We fought, we lost several thousandarried a position by force of arms, which General Barnard regrets so much we did not do at Yorktownattle of Fair Oaks, and, among others, by General Barnard, who says, in his Report, The repulse of followed into Richmond. The italics are General Barnard's own. Without repeating the obvious remaonnected with the Army of the Potomac. General Barnard, in his testimony before the Committee on[5 more...]
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 8: (search)
ed to retreat, with the loss of two guns. Thus, on the right, in the centre, and on the left, the fierce and persistent efforts of the enemy had failed; but our trains were not yet in safety, and our communications not yet secure, so that more marching and more fighting were still before the brave Army of the Potomac. The troops distributed along the line between White Oak Swamp and Malvern Hill fell back to the latter place during the night, and were posted there, as they arrived, by General Barnard, who received his instructions from the general commanding. On Tuesday, July 1, the sun rose on a scene such as few but soldiers see, and soldiers rarely. The whole Army of the Potomac was massed on the slopes of Malvern Hill. It is an open plateau, and extends about a mile and a half in width and three-quarters of a mile in depth. On the highest ground there is an old-fashioned Virginia house, of brick, in one story. Trees standing thickly supply it with grateful shade. Behind