The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-29
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.va Tuesday, Nov. Is, 1852.
Napoleon once told me. y aavs Jom;n; uth..
he knew no method of conductins : vsr eYcene
| to march twenty-five miles . dsv. 20 fight ana
then TO encamp In quiet = Gen. Burnside be-
gins like believer in that policy. whatever
earnest. afas@5s s6s - .-1SA ~
He has already inspired the arm, n .,,.,..,
Gus extent Officers wont 70 believe ~. 70.
great command cannot move more IT, .;s
miles day, and accustomed to our old me,hod
OF waiting week for the issue Of new elothir~
ora month for the execution Of an oed.- 3"
advance, rub their eyes in mute sstonishn,.n,
It wss late on Friday afternoon when the tel.
egraph brought from Washington approval Of
BurnsideS plan and permission for tile army to
move. At daylight the next morning ia ad-
vance corps (CoucAS) was on the road 10 FrSd.
ericksburg. Howard's division Was ia, want of
new clothing; dat 4 did not ,oa;e. We marched
ten miles; the clothing came up from che rail.
road after dark the garments for two bripades
were oil Issued that night, and 1t Daylight the
men we're again upsn the road, clothed and in
The new organization of the army has reach.
ed you BY telegraph. Sumner commands The
right, Hooker the centre, Franklin the left and
Sigel the Reserve Summers Grand Division
consists Of the Second Corps formerly his own.
now commanded BY Couch) and the Ninth Tori.
ginslly Bufnside's. but now under WilcoxL-
Hooker's is composed of the Third (Hsintzel-
mans), and the Fifth Qate Eta John Porter's\
Franklin's 10 made up Of the Sixth (his ownI
and the First formerly Hooker's). The Reserve
consists Of Sigers Corps (the Eleventh), 'swith
such troops as may hereafter be added" ID Of
b Upon this march the right has had the adj
vance, Couch leading and Wilcox following ono
day in the rear. I did not leave Wsrrenton un-
til p. N. on Saturday, ands was, therefore, s
ing out to the front WAS compelled to pass the
entire wagon train of the corps Transportation
has been greatly cut down, but found the corps
train more than six miles long. The entire
transportation Of the Army of the Potomac,
compacted as much a. possible, makes yearly
fifty miles Of wagons. They can carry food and
forage to supply the army for ten days, and am
munition enough to fight our way to Richmond.
There we're very few stragglers behind the
troops. Gen. COUGHS rigid enforcement of the
stringent orders against lettering has nearly corr
Iected it. Ss rs+s
When night came on, great 6res we're blazing
through the gross in oil directions, like those
which sweep over Western prairies. In this
sterile region the land s unfenced, and FIRE, once
kindled in the tall, dead grass, spreads like
strong wind across q field of tall wheat. By
day you see its black, desolsting track; but at
night It paints upon tue horizon vivid ERE pic
lures of rare, fantastic beauty.
AT o'clock Sunday morning, the corps was
marching again. Frenchs division moved in the
road, Hancock's through the fields, hundred
yards to the right, and Towards an equal dis
lance to the left. This mode of marching, in
three columns, 10 q favorite one with Gen. Sum-
ner; when he commanded only division, be al
ways adopted it. Its advantages are, that in
case of attack, the troops are ready to 60 into
battle at once; and at night those in the rear
arrive in camp two or three hours earlier than if
the divisions followed each other upon the road.
But during the night it is severe upon the out.
side columns, especially in . wooded country like
this. Thus, while We moved but l6 miles on
Sunday-an excellent days march however
Hancocks and Towards divisions we're CON-
PEELED by the woods and bills to make 80 many
reflections that they travelled more than 90
But the weather was cool and bracing; and at
night, half an hour after the head of the column
halted the rear came ap.
This morning, Summers and COUGHS headquar.
ters are here; Burnside IL only twelve miles in
the rear, and the whole army 10 rapidly moving
up. 7E-..s- ~ 3 ...-.sr. = r. . .ssB
We have changed our base from Manassas
Railroad to Acquia Greek and the Rsppahan-
mock. W. Aase marched from Warrenton, torty
miles, N tao days and q holt. A few days viii
be required to rest the army and prepare for it's
grand movement But the old formula of "All
quiet along the Lines" is among the things that
were. ..-t - ABE.