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George B. McClellan (search for this): chapter 9
necessary. A few days before the arrival of McClellan in Washington Congress had stated the purposore, it was not their policy to strengthen Gen. McClellan so as to insure his success. I have heatood the purpose of the meeting to be that Gen. McClellan should then and there explain his militaryter the lapse of some minutes, said: Well, Gen. McClellan, I think you had better tell us what your see that we are likely to make much out of Gen. McClellan. With that the meeting adjourned. I do ny Mr. Stanton revealed Mr. Chase's secret to McClellan, and enabled the latter to defeat the plot, d of the army. On the very day on which Gen. McClellan made use of Mr. Stanton's information, andin favor of battle in front. President said McClellan's health was much improved, and thought it btive Mansion Washington March 31, 1862. Maj.-Gen. McClellan: my dear Sir: This morning I felt co adjutant-general's office, April 4, 1862. Gen. McClellan: By direction of the President, General
William H. Seward (search for this): chapter 9
e more whispering between him and Mr. Chase, Mr. Seward arose, buttoned his coat, and laughingly sai the meeting adjourned. I do not think that Mr. Seward took any special part in the affair, and bel, of his method of using Secretary Cameron and Seward to accomplish his end forms a very extraordinafound Gens. McDowell, Franklin, and Meigs, and Seward and Blair. Meigs decided against dividing forc see the President. I first proposed seeing Seward, to which he assented. . . He and I drove to Willard's, where I left him, and went myself to Seward's, I told him at once what was in my mind — the knew him when he was in Buchanan's cabinet. Seward replied that he saw much .of him then; that heting I told him what had passed between me and Seward concerning Stanton, with which he was gratifiet that his wish, supported, as it would be, by Seward and myself, would certainly be gratified, and de. I said also that if he wished I would see Seward, and would go to the President, after he had l[2 more...]
M. C. Meigs (search for this): chapter 9
sident or Secretary of War. Gens. McDowell, Franklin, and, I think, Meigs were entrusted by the President with this business. McDowell, whSecretaries Seward, Chase, and Blair, Gens. McDowell, Franklin, and Meigs. I do not think that the Secretary of War (Mr. Cameron) was present. I sat by Secretary Blair and Gen. Meigs, and entered into conversation with them upon topics of general interest having no possible bearinthing wrong. I then quietly resumed my conversation with Blair and Meigs, awaiting further developments. The whispering then recommenced,terrogate me. I then quietly resumed my conversation with Blair and Meigs, taking no further notice of Mr. Chase. I must again state that excuse myself. At President's found Gens. McDowell, Franklin, and Meigs, and Seward and Blair. Meigs decided against dividing forces and inMeigs decided against dividing forces and in favor of battle in front. President said McClellan's health was much improved, and thought it best to adjourn until to-morrow, and have all
Willard (search for this): chapter 9
and Seward and Blair. Meigs decided against dividing forces and in favor of battle in front. President said McClellan's health was much improved, and thought it best to adjourn until to-morrow, and have all then present attend with McC. at three. Home, and talk and reading. Dinner. Cameron came in. . . We talked of his going to Russia, and Stanton as successor, and he proposed I should again see the President. I first proposed seeing Seward, to which he assented. . . He and I drove to Willard's, where I left him, and went myself to Seward's, I told him at once what was in my mind — that I thought the President and Cameron were both willing that C. should go to Russia. He seemed to receive the matter as new, except so far as suggested by me last night. Wanted to know who would succeed Cameron. I said Holt and Stanton had been named; that I feared Holt might embarrass us on the slavery question, and might not prove quite equal to the emergency; that Stanton was a good lawyer an
Joseph E. Johnston (search for this): chapter 9
st and West, and counting the losses also by disease, I do not doubt that more than half a million of men were sacrificed unnecessarily for the sake of insuring the success of a political party. I do not base my assertions as to the motives of the radical leaders upon mere surmises, but upon facts that have frequently come to my knowledge during the war and since. For instance, Maj. Charles Davies, once professor of mathematics at West Point, told me, and at a different time told Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, the following story: He said that during the very early part of the Peninsular campaign he was one of a commission sent from New York to urge more vigorous action in supporting me. They called upon the President, and found Mr. Stanton with him. In reply to their statement of the purpose of their visit Mr. Stanton stated that the great end and aim of the war was to abolish slavery. To end the war before the nation was ready for that would be a failure. The war must be prolonged,
D. Hunter (search for this): chapter 9
ed me personally, and certainly he was always much influenced by me when we were together. During the early part of my command in Washington he often consulted with me before taking important steps or appointing general officers. He appointed Hunter a major-general without consulting me, and a day or two afterwards explained that he did so because the people of Illinois seemed to want somebody to be a sort of father to them, and he thought Hunter would answer that purpose. When he appointHunter would answer that purpose. When he appointed, as general officers, some of the released prisoners from the first Bull Run, he afterwards explained to me that he did it as a recompense for their sufferings, unaware, no doubt, that in other armies they would have been brought before some tribunal to explain their capture. Soon after arriving in Washington the President one day sent for me to ask my opinion of Hooker, who was urged for appointment as a brigadier-general of volunteers, and stated that he wished me to regard the conversat
O. C. Ord (search for this): chapter 9
he would allow no other troops to be withdrawn from my command. Before I left for the field Fort Monroe and its dependencies had been placed under my command, and I was authorized to form a division of 10,000 men from the troops stationed there and add it to the Army of the Potomac, placing it under Mansfield. I arrived at Fort Monroe on the afternoon of the 2d of April, and on the 3d received a telegraphic order withdrawing Fort Monroe from my command and forbidding me to remove any of Gen. Ord's troops without his sanction. No reason has ever been given for this step, and I was thus not only deprived of 10,000 more troops, but also of the control of my immediate base of operations and supplies. On the afternoon of the 5th, the right and left wings of the army being under fire from Yorktown and the works on the line of the Warwick, I received the following telegram: adjutant-general's office, April 4, 1862. Gen. McClellan: By direction of the President, General McDowe
John Tucker (search for this): chapter 9
efore, and how many he invented on the spur of the moment. His stories were seldom refined, but were always to the point. The President ignored all questions of weather, state of roads, and preparation, and gave orders impossible of execution. About the middle of Feb., 1862, the President having reluctantly consented to abandon his plan of operation for that suggested by me, preparations were begun for the collection of the necessary water transportation. On the 27th of that month Mr. John Tucker, of Philadelphia, Assistant Secretary of War, was placed in charge of the procuring of the requisite steamers, etc., and performed his task with wonderful skill and energy. The President's War Order of March 8, 1862, that any movement as aforesaid, en route for a new base of operations, which may be ordered by the general-in-chief, and which may be intended to move upon the Chesapeake Bay, shall begin to move upon the bay as early as the 18th March instant, and the general-in-chief sha
Warden (search for this): chapter 9
and of the army. On the very day on which Gen. McClellan made use of Mr. Stanton's information, and left his bed to visit the President, Mr. Chase devoted himself to concentrating the plans for bringing Mr. Stanton into the cabinet. He regarded it as a matter of the highest importance, and his account, in his private diary for that day, of his method of using Secretary Cameron and Seward to accomplish his end forms a very extraordinary intermingling of piety and politics, as follows (see Warden's Account, etc., of S. P. Chase, p. 400): January 12, 1862.--At church this morning. Wished much to join in communion, but felt myself too subject to temptation to sin. After church went to see Cameron by appointment; but being obliged to meet the President, etc., at one, could only excuse myself. At President's found Gens. McDowell, Franklin, and Meigs, and Seward and Blair. Meigs decided against dividing forces and in favor of battle in front. President said McClellan's health was m
Edwin M. Stanton (search for this): chapter 9
. They called upon the President, and found Mr. Stanton with him. In reply to their statement of thhat the man really was. I had never seen Mr. Stanton, and probably had not even heard of him, beech to some newly arrived regiment. Next day Stanton urged me to arrest him for inciting to insubom me that Mr. Cameron had resigned and that Mr. Stanton was appointed in his place. This was the fely. My first inkling of this came through Mr. Stanton, not yet Secretary of War, who said to me: of Mr. Cameron, in order to replace him by Mr. Stanton, who, while pretending to be my friend, wasChase, which shed ample light on them. Why Mr. Stanton revealed Mr. Chase's secret to McClellan, a not prove quite equal to the emergency; that Stanton was a good lawyer and full of energy, but I ct had passed between me and Seward concerning Stanton, with which he was gratified. I advised him him that the President had already mentioned Stanton in a way which indicated that no objection on[18 more...]
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