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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our Subscribers. (search)
t exceed 5,000, and Gen. M'Clellan's Federal forces were about 22,000. The Federal troops were in three columns. Gen. Norris had flanked the Southern troops on the north; Gen. M'Clellan approached on the south, and Gen. Rosencrantz advanced in front. Gen. Garnett's command stood their ground to the last possible moment of safety, and the retreat must have been admirably managed, as the pursuers had no opportunity of using their small arms. This was owing to the fact that the rear was well guarded. In the retreat of the Confederate troops, they were twice outflanked by convergent columns. At the last accounts only twenty of the Southern troops were killed, and they were successfully retreating towards St. George.--The Federalists evidently indulged the hope that Gen. Hill, who was at Oakland, would harass the Confederates in their retreat towards Hardy county. It must be remembered that Gen. Garnett's troops have kept Gen. McClellan's columns in check for several weeks.
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
wspapers systematically exaggerate the strength of their regiments, and that the true secret of the apparent want of vigor in Gen. Scott consists in the fact that his troops are too much demoralized and wanting in organization and discipline to be trusted in the field. This is especially the case with the native regiments, and there is no appearance of efficiency except where there are portions of the regular army, or else where the forces consist for the most part of the German element. McClellan's army is probably the best column the North has in the field, and this is owing to the double fact that it consists so largely of Germans, and is under the conduct of able generalship. It is now perfectly well understood at the North, that impossible as it will be to raise the four hundred millions of dollars demanded by Lincoln, it will be still more so to raise the four hundred thousand men which he calls for. The problem resolves itself simply into the question whether the poor cl
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Citizens' Oath. (search)
Gen. McClellan. Gen. G. B. McClellan, who has the reputation of being the ablest officer in the Federal Army, is a native of Philadelphia, and still comparatively a young man, having been born on the 3d of December, 1826, and graduated at West McClellan, who has the reputation of being the ablest officer in the Federal Army, is a native of Philadelphia, and still comparatively a young man, having been born on the 3d of December, 1826, and graduated at West Point with the class of 1846. He served with distinction in the war with Mexico, and in 1855 was appointed a member of the Commission which went to the seat of war in the Crimea and in Northern Russia. The other members of the Commission were Col.the Superintendency of the Troy Arsenal. A report, embodying the result of his observations in the Crimea, was made by McClellan, which added to his reputation as a scientific soldier. In January, 1857, he resigned his position in the army to becorawn from the Maryland line to the Northwest corner of McKean county. Such are the principal interesting points of McClellan's history, as we condense them from an article in the Petersburg Express.--He is probably the ablest military man in th