The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1881 |
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... passed and the winter is approaching so rapidly , that but two courses are left to the Government , viz , either to go into winter quarters or to assume the offensive with forces greatly inferior in numbers to the army I regarded as ...
... passed and the winter is approaching so rapidly , that but two courses are left to the Government , viz , either to go into winter quarters or to assume the offensive with forces greatly inferior in numbers to the army I regarded as ...
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... passed , and your letter indicates that you are not accountable for the failure to seize the propitious moment , but that , on the contrary , you perceived its advantages . Second . To isolate Fort Pulaski , cut off its supplies , and ...
... passed , and your letter indicates that you are not accountable for the failure to seize the propitious moment , but that , on the contrary , you perceived its advantages . Second . To isolate Fort Pulaski , cut off its supplies , and ...
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... passed appointing a committee to wait upon the Secretary of War , to request him to have frame buildings erected sufficient for the reception of 15,000 men , and also to request General McClellan's approval of the same . The committee ...
... passed appointing a committee to wait upon the Secretary of War , to request him to have frame buildings erected sufficient for the reception of 15,000 men , and also to request General McClellan's approval of the same . The committee ...
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... passed through the season of malarious fevers . The sanitary arrangements of this army have been successful in warding off the diseases of summer and autumn . We are now called upon to guard against those of winter and spring . The ...
... passed through the season of malarious fevers . The sanitary arrangements of this army have been successful in warding off the diseases of summer and autumn . We are now called upon to guard against those of winter and spring . The ...
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... passed through the enemy's lines and up to within some forty rods of the rear of their earthwork on Munson's Hill . Seeing two rebels near , they watched their chance , each picked his man , fired , and brought him to the ground . They ...
... passed through the enemy's lines and up to within some forty rods of the rear of their earthwork on Munson's Hill . Seeing two rebels near , they watched their chance , each picked his man , fired , and brought him to the ground . They ...
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Page 56 - That the force to be left to cover Washington shall be such as to give an entire feeling of security for its safety from menace.
Page 40 - The next resistance will be near the English Bend, where there are some earthen batteries. Here it may be necessary for you to land your troops and co-operate with the naval attack, although it is more than probable that the navy unassisted can accomplish the result. If these works are taken the city of New Orleans necessarily falls. In that event it will probably be best to occupy Algiers with the mass of your troops, also the eastern bank of the river above the city.
Page 46 - Monroe (the place of departure having been changed, which caused delay,) 121,500 men, 14,592 animals, 1,150 wagons, 44 batteries, 74 ambulances, besides pontoon bridges, telegraph materials, and the enormous quantity of equipage, &c., required for an army of such magnitude. The only loss of which I have heard is eight mules and nine barges, which latter went ashore in a gale within a few miles of Fort Monroe — the cargoes being saved.
Page 50 - That no more than two army corps (about fifty thousand troops) of said Army of the Potomac shall be moved en route for a new base of operations until the navigation of the Potomac from Washington to the Chesapeake Bay shall be freed from enemy's batteries and other obstructions, or until the President shall hereafter give express permission.
Page 7 - It is intended to overcome this difficulty by the partial operations suggested, and such others as the particular case may require. We must endeavor to seize places on the railways in the rear of the enemy's points of concentration, and we must threaten their seaboard cities, in order that each State may be forced, by the necessity of its own defence, to diminish its contingent to the Confederate army.
Page 356 - SIR: I have the honor to report that, in obedience to your orders, I...
Page 42 - In fact, would it not be less valuable in this, that it would break no great line of the enemy's communications, while mine would? Fifth. In case of disaster, would not a retreat be more difficult by your plan than mine?
Page 641 - President and a unanimous cabinet express their own and the nation's sympathy in his personal affliction, and their profound sense of the important public services rendered by him to his country during his long and brilliant career, among which will ever be gratefully distinguished his faithful devotion to the Constitution, the Union, and the flag when assailed by parricidal rebellion. "ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Page 39 - If the military suggestions I have made in this letter prove to have been founded on erroneous data, you are of course perfectly free to change the plans of operations. " Brigadier General DC BUELL, " Commanding Department of the Ohio" " HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, " Washington, February 14, 1862.
Page 41 - That all other forces, both land and naval, with their respective commanders, obey existing orders for the time, and be ready to obey additional orders when duly given. That the heads of departments, and especially the Secretaries of War and of the Navy, with all their subordinates, and the generalin-chief, with all other...