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" The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. "
Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army - Seite 320
von George Stillman Hillard - 1864 - 396 Seiten
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The North American Review, Band 130

1880 - 672 Seiten
...and clothing continued to be enormous down to a very late period after the order of October 6th to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south was received. The reports of the army quartermasters, made to General McClellan's headquarters between...
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The Antietam and Fredericksburg

Francis Winthrop Palfrey - 1881 - 272 Seiten
...become impatient, so much so that Halleck, the General-in-Chief, was instructed to telegraph McClellan as follows : " The President directs that you cross...and give battle to ^the enemy or drive him south. . . ." This, however, did not move McClellan, and on the 10th of October Stuart crossed the Potomac,...
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The Life and Public Services of Ambrose E. Burnside: Soldier - Citizen ...

Benjamin Perley Poore - 1882 - 466 Seiten
...although it was then 150,000 strong. On the 6th of October General McClellan was peremptorily ordered to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south; — "your army must move now," he was told, "while the roads are good." But the army did not move, and an acrimonious correspondence...
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The Life and Public Services of Ambrose E. Burnside: Soldier - Citizen ...

Benjamin Perley Poore - 1882 - 476 Seiten
...although it was then 150.000 strong. On the 6th of October General McClellan was peremptorily ordered to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south; — "your armv must move now," he was told, " while the roads are good." But the army did not move, and an acrimonious...
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The War of the Rebellion: With a Full and Critical History of the First ...

Theodore Burr Gates - 1884 - 690 Seiten
...Halleck often assumed an unfriendly or ironical tone. On the sixth of October, Halleck telegraphed: "The President directs that you cross the Potomac...Your army must move now, while the roads are good." But McClellan did not go. On the 21st he telegraphed Halleck that he had been making every exertion...
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Twenty Years of Congress: from Lincoln to Garfield: With a Review of ..., Band 1

James Gillespie Blaine - 1884 - 1194 Seiten
...he was peremptorily ordered by the General-in-Chief Halleck on the 6th of October in these words : " The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...Your army must move now while the roads are good. ... I am directed to add that the Secretary of War and the General-in-Chief fully concur with the President...
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McClellan's Last Service to the Republic: Together with a Tribute to His Memory

George Ticknor Curtis - 1885 - 166 Seiten
...and clothing continued to be enormous down to a very late period after the order of October 6th to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south was received. The reports of the army quartermasters, made to General McClellan's headquarters between...
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The Sixteenth Maine Regiment in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865

Abner Ralph Small - 1886 - 358 Seiten
...impatient, so much so, that Halleek, the commander-in-chief, was instructed to telegraph McClellan as follows: "The President directs that you cross...and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south." This did not move McClellan, but a rumor that such a telegram had been received, reached us, and we...
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Following the Flag

Charles Carleton Coffin - 1886 - 250 Seiten
...McClellan was not disposed to move. On the 6th of October, he received orders from General Halleck to cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. " You must move while the roads are good," was the telegram. Some of the troops needed clothing, and...
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Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry ...

John Lord Parker - 1887 - 678 Seiten
...the Capitol. On the 7th of October, the commanding general had received a telegram directing him to "cross the Potomac, and give battle to the enemy,...Your army must move now while the roads are good." But upon repeated representations from Gen. McClellan that the army was wholly deficient in cavalry,...
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