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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Maryland. (search)
James, had come to consult with General McClellan relative to the plans of the forthcoming campaigns; it was now the 8th of August. During this period only a few skirmishes had disturbed the silence and inaction that succeeded the great marches ano Aquia Creek, where Burnside had preceded it. Such were the preparations which occupied the Federal troops up to the 8th of August. For the last four days McClellan had been at work in hastening their completion with as much zeal as if he had apprenty-eight thousand men — were thus placed en echelon on the road from Culpepper to Sperryville on the morning of the 8th of August. It was rather a venturesome position for this small army; it was away from its depots, established at Manassas, andhad been ordered to forward his troops as fast as they could embark, to Aquia Creek, where Burnside had landed on the 8th of August, and whence he had already despatched eight thousand men of his corps, forming Reno's and Stevens' divisions, to rein