Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-11-21
IMPORTANT FACTS REVEALED.
The Various Interfe regces With HIS
Plans and Command.
IT'S PLANS REVEALED TO TnE
ENEMY THROUGH Washing
TON AUTHORITIES.
Hon lie ens Hampered and Held by
the Federal Government wh'le
the Enemy was actually
1idetltn Concen rat.
ing against HIM.
(Onciuded).

tJDHCtuNeuJs
| The ADVANCE ON YoRKToWN-obsiA
Giles AND InCIDENTs-THE NAVY UNA
Biz 10 CO OPERATE.
So the Army of the Potomac moved
on in the dark toward yorktown. We
were two days on the road. The COL
umn of the General in Chief had passe >
some fortified positions abandoned ny
the enemy. "A few horsenen were oc
casionally seen at rare intervals. NO
sooner had we come under the walls OF
yorktown than We were arrested by the
cannon. \ few gunboats, which baa
appeared at the mouth OF York river,
had found it guarded by some forty pie
ces OF heavy calibrc. The naval officer
concluded that they could not pass this
battery The investment OF the place by
water must consequently be abandoned.
| When we undertook to invest 1t by land
we came upon series of works stretch
ing across the peninsula on the edge OF
| tnarshy stream called Warwick Creek
and high enough to make investment
impossible. The eonlederates had dam
med this marshy stream IN places 30
AS TO convert it into pond, and their
dams, with other accessible points, were
defended by artillery, redoubts aud rifle
pits;
4 General Keys, in trying to
pas, the river Warwick, had been the
first TO encounter this line OF defense.
| His march had been very slow. The
country, perfectly flat and covered with
marshy forests, was Only traveised by =
few roads scarce worthy OF the hame.
The rains, falling in torrents unusal al
this season OF the year, had made these
roads, If we must SO call them, com
pletclv improbable. The infantry
could con,rve to ret Gu by marching III
the water through the woods ; but as
soon as two or three Wagons had made
ruls in the ground 70 wheeled vehicle
could move an inch. ct course all
movement was impossible, TOR we conld
not leave the wagons The country W as
| utterly deserted. Except water and
food it supplied us with nothing. The
81 ldiers carried but two DAYS provisi ns
These exhausted, the wagons were their
only reliance. We had. therefore, to
make what the Americans call "cordu
ROY roads, Here the American plo-
necr was in his element, the roads We, c
made as if by enchan,ment The cannon
and tie wagons came in slowly Indeed
but they came in where it seemed an
mpossiblllty they eve, should do 1t. AT
night the troops conld lind no dry col
ner for their bivouacs. remember to
have seen a general of division who st
whole eslab1 bment consisted Of five 81
-,x pine branches, one end stuck IN tht
mud, or rather in the water. the other
resting on tree. Here he slept with al
INDIA rubber cloak over his head.
THE NEXT INTERFERENCE WITH M'CLEL
| LAN's PtANs-THE WORK LAID oUl
FOR M'DowELL's coRps-TmE CoRPs
WITHHELD By TIE WASHINGTON AU.
| THoklIIEs.
| 1t was by such roads that we reached
the Confedei ate lines, where we were
| received by vivid ire Of artillery
Throughout the seven miles Of the Con
icdeiate lines we encountered the sam.
attitude of alert defence. Everywhere
cannon and camps. OF course the infer
ence was that we were arrested by
forces apparently formidable and before
position not TO be east Y carried. Bu'
thi. case had been toresten. 10 order to
gain time and avoid the tedlnn OF 4
siege, Gen. McClellen he'd thought GU
the meaos of turning the position. Tn,
enemy held the james with the Melri
mac and his gunboa,s the York was
closed by the Yorktown and Gloucester
Point batteries. Nevertheless, by dis.
embarkation on the Severn, beyond
Gloucester, We might cary the latter
position and open the way for the Fed
e'al ganboats into the river York. A
subsequent movement mp the left bank,
10 The direction Of West Point, would
put us SO far in the rear of the army
charged with tie defence of the lines OF
Yorktown, that it would have been u
most perllous position. This accom-
plished, the Confederates must have
abandoned Gloucester, and fallen back
hastily upon Richmond. The erecution
OF this coup dc main had been lett 10 a
corps Of The army commanded by Gen
Nc Do"eH. THIS corps was to be the
last to embark at Washington, aud i,
was calculated that It ough, to reach
\ orktown IN bod on its transports y,
the moment when the rest Of the army
moving by land could appear before
that post from Fortress Monroe.
INSTEAD OF FINDING II. WI
RECEIVED THE 1NEXpLICABLE
AND AS YET UNEXPLAINED IN
TELLfGENCE THAT rHfS CORPS
$4,000 STRONG. HAD BEEN Sent
10 ANOTHER DEoTlN ALTON. Tn
neus "as rece'ced in tie army wiM stu
petac'ion, although the mi ,rny could
not foresec The deploraLle consequence
OF q step taken, it must be supposed
with no evil Inter ton, but certainly will
an nconcicaJie yecklessness. F,f,eer
DAYS before, this measure, allhoupE i
mus, always have been Injurious, would
have been much les 50. We mich,
have made arrangements u on a rev
batis. Ioken when At ,c s, IL dcranaed
'rhofc system Of machinery fairly a
work.
| THE NECESSITY FOR sIEGE-Tur s1rc,
THE EVACUATION, AND WHY IT WAS
| SUCCESSFUL.
The narrator then proceeds to state
the necessity of laying siege to the
works of yorktown and carving them