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The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Army intelligence. (search)
d one thousand miles, and spent 140 days on the road. This is one of the most lengthy military journeys recorded. It is not generally known that the longest march of infantry ever accomplished was successfully completed about a year ago by an American regiment — the gallant old Sixth--which left Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for California, a distance of 2,800 miles, and was 190 days on the road, of which 162 were actually passed in marching. This march was nearly twice the length of that of Hannibal's troops, going from Italy to Spain, and more than twice as long as that of Xenophon's ten thousand, and much longer than Napoleon's perilous journey to Moscow. The Sixth suffered severely all the way. At Carson Valley the snow fell for three days, and at the end of that time lay on the ground eighteen inches deep. More recently several companies of a fine regiment passed over seventeen days without meeting water, being thus thrown on the scanty supply of their wallets. The fatigue a
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Speech of U. S. Senator Benjamin on the Crisis. (search)
has been sanctified by one of the most glorious of them all. It was on this day, eighty-three years ago, that Washington, having extricated himself the night before from his perilous position in Trenton, made a flank march of twelve miles, fell upon the rear of the British army at Princeton, gained another glorious victory, and completely changed the face of affairs. It was a great exploit, worthy of any commander that ever lived, rivalled only by the march of the Consul Nero, when he left Hannibal in the lurch on the Vulturous, and fell upon and destroyed the recruits which his brother was bringing to his army. A flank march, in the face of an enemy in position, says Napoleon, is the most dangerous operation in war. Such a march brought on the rout of Frederick the Great at Kolin, of the Russians at Austerlitz, of Marmont at Salamanca. This operation, delicate as it is, Washington conducted with the most entire success, in the face of an enemy more than doubly as strong as he was,