Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1862-11-15

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and Il brave, cool man. Not onc d1Y." was
in like manner the answer. You should
have seen the roads, he added, "to remove
all doubt So much for general views
now for the actual campaign.
If Interested take a map Of the scat of
war; Lloyds is good. Put yodr finger on
Yorktown, nest find Urh0nna on thc Kappa
hammock; now Fredericksburg: You see the
three places; McClclau's plan was to have
an army advance from Old Point, IN army
from Frcdcrckshurg, an army from Crhanna,
all upon Richmond Look again ri the
map, and You will see thet the Confederate
army, if it remained to fight at Yorktown,
would be taken in the rear by the army
advancing from Urhanna This the C0nt"d-
crates would not have allowed, and yet there
was but onc way to prevent it. which was
to retreat without fighting, from Yorktown
far enough to place the Yorktown and
Orbanna armies beth in front. Look at the
map and he sure Of this. But no army WAS
to be sent from Crhanna, and 40 Mcclellan
had to get to Richmond as lest he could :;
and as he wanted men and had none to
spare. instead Of StorInng the entrcnChn.rnts
of the COntodcratcs. he planted hrtterics and
made 1t essential for them to retreat. Had
they fought behind entrcEChmtnts AZ York
town as they fought in the open field at
Williamsburg, the Potomac army would
have been crippled at the beginning. Me
ClcIlan forced them away without a fight,
and Congress wisely thanked him for the
saving of human life.
Finally, he got TO the Chiclahominr.
Instantly hc began 40 make it, sTaurs
pa-,tbIc to u great army in the face OF a
lrlye enemy; and when his bridges and
roads were ready. ne stretched out Iii, right.
hand rs it were, to Mcdowell, at Frci"ricks-
burg and tight!n. the battle of Hanover
Court House, was to break up the railroads
by which troops would have been sent,
otherwise irom Richmond 10 prevent it 4;
waited for Mcdowell 70 advance, when, the
two marching upon it from the east and
from the north, would unquc>tlonahly have
taken the Capital oi the 'un'"ltratcs. Me
DoWcll had 10000 m-n and 80 pieces OF
artillery. but be did not hudgc; orders
from Washington retained nm until the
C"nivdcratcs nlckn.mcd him. tsee the
newspapers ot the dayJ the standing Joke.
Disappointed III md from Urbanna, disap-
pointed IN Mcdowell, what was Mcclellan
to do NO rcIn!orccmcntS to help INN IN
the work alone; prevented from advancing
a, was his purpose, after tmr Oaks. hy the
tempest "mcn Hooded the Chlckahomlny.
what WAS he to do As he told burnside
at Anuctam, 50 ne was tol', We presume,
from Washington, " nave no infantry.
Ihe IFrei".nt ma" snd rs mVch IN one oi
ms speeches. nat Wa h' th'n 10 60 IN
I"c@ "i an army ncrc!'t" day hy Gay by
conScupuon, WLlIc h,s Was day hy day
diminishing lie h"d |" save II, and 10
save inc Immense supplies accumulated al
White House and III the Held. II he could
not take hchinpni alone, ne coH'i accom-
pA'A what at the time Vas more lWput1nl,
he could preserve what M"GId save "ni dlG
save, Washington. W IN whose hands no"
would ne the National Capital, II sumner
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@hu MCCALL WIN lHtir respective troops
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