Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt: Giving Hitherto Unpublished Official Orders, Personal Narratives of Important Military Operations, and Interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and with Generals McDowell, McClellan, Meade, Hancock, Burnside, and Others in Command of the Armies in the Field, and His Impression of These MenWright & Joys, 1901 - 331 pages |
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Acquia Creek Alexandria Railroad army Assistant August 27 August 30 battle Brigadier-General Bull Run bridge Burnside Catlett's cavalry Centreville Chambersburg charge Colonel Haupt command communication Construction and Transportation Construction Corps Department depot destroyed directed dispatch duty enemy Fairfax Fairfax Station feet force forward Fredericksburg Front Royal General-in-Chief Gettysburg guard Hagerstown Harrisburg Headquarters Heintzelman Herman Haupt Hooker Ingalls instructions J. H. Devereux July Lee's loaded Major-General Halleck Manassas Gap Manassas Gap Railroad McCallum McClellan McCrickett McDowell Meade miles Military Railroads morning movement night Northern Central officers operations Orange & Alexandria orders P. H. Watson Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Railroad placed Pope position Potomac Creek President Quartermaster rail railway Rappahannock received reconstruction Rectortown repair respectfully returned road RUFUS INGALLS Secretary Secretary of War sent soon Stanton Station Superintendent supplies telegram telegraph tion track trains troops tunnel United States Military unloaded Warrenton Warrenton Junction Washington wounded
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Page 184 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 184 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 184 - Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer.
Page 145 - Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
Page 207 - My original instructions require me to cover Harper's Ferry and Washington. I have now imposed upon me, in addition, an enemy in my front of more than my number. I beg to be understood, respectfully, but firmly, that I am unable to comply with this condition with the means at my disposal, and earnestly request that I may at once be relieved from the position I occupy.
Page 184 - I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it And now beware of rashness.
Page 246 - Having performed my duty conscientiously and to the best of my ability, the censure of the President conveyed in your dispatch of 1 p. M. this day, is, in my judgment, so undeserved that I feel compelled most respectfully to ask to be immediately relieved from the command of this army.
Page 184 - General : I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in...
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