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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
he President, a document which will ever be regarded as one of the strangest monuments of that epoch. This order directs all the land and naval forces of the Republic to attack the enemy on the same day, and to this effect he designates the 22d of February, the anniversary of Washington's birth-day. Generals, heads of departments, and their employes, are each to be held responsible for the non-execution of this order, although none of them have been consulted, and although the date of this si plan for landing the troops at Urbanna. But on the 31st of January the latter refuses to endorse it. Penetrated by the necessity to begin the campaign at once, unwilling to belie the order by which he had directed a general movement on the 22d of February, and dreading the delays which a naval operation would occasion, Mr. Lincoln substituted another plan for that which had been proposed to him. Leaving to General McClellan the responsibility of carrying out this new plan, he directed him to