Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-09-06
Ger. McClellan-1ruth Coming
Ont.

! The Boston Post publishes the follow.
ing extract from letter from an officer Of
much military knowledge and ability in the
Army of the Potomac, to a friend in that
city. 1t fully confirms much that we have
said on the same subject:
Mcclellan was allowed to commit him.
self to plan of campaign based on the
employment of one hundred and sixty
tbousand men. After the first confict-at
Yorktown-the very night of the fight, he
was advised that The corps (the body on
which depended the flank movement which
was to dislodge, and which would have
dislodged the rebel army at once, and in
all probability have bagged it), that of Nc.
Dowell wss withdrawn from his com
mand. This was Immediately followed by
another order, deprivins him of the use Of
Fortress Monroe, and all Of Wool 8 troops.
"The first result was the loss of a month
at Yorktown. Then be advanced with
steady fire of representations of the need
of more troops, which were all worse than
neglected.
"Then came, as ON inevitable result of
our position, (ihat of any army attacking
another of equal strength, discipline and
bravery, strongly entrenched, (thc necess-
ity of providing fortified position, behind
which, in case Of repulse, shelter from alb
solute ruin could be found.
1T would have been absurd and crimi-
nal in Mcclellan to have pushed an army,
ON unknown ground, and in hostile coun-
try, against an intrcnched position, gar
risoned by force equal to his own--and
staked the whole result, and the absolute
ruin of his army and of the cause, upon
the success Of the first assault.
"Fair Oaks followed. Then the De-
partment Cow began to give down her
milk, and Wool's troops we're sent him
but, like the sending of Frapklin's corps,
it was too late, to do any good !; it did not
even make good our loss.
''Then came the absolute certainly that
Jackson was really playing the game that
Mcclellan told them he was playing; SO
Mccall was sent. Again it was too late.
In the meantime troops were pouring in
to Richmond from the South, and Jackson
was coming from the \ orth,
"Overpowered by numbers, betrayed by
those whose sworn duty it was to carry
through this army, we had to hanover fo'
our very existancc.
"The thing stands thus: On a fimsy
pretex McDowells corps was withdrawn
and the whole plan of the campaign defeat
ed at its outset.
s'Had it no. beed for this, it is now a.
assured fact, as positively certain as such
) thing can be, that the redels, would have
evacuated Yorktown before the l4th o.
April. or their who'e army below Yves
Point have been captured; that by the l s.
, OF June We would have occupied Rich
mond, by the 18th been in possession o
Raleigh, North Carolina, and Virgini,
cleared of troops, but the weakening o
Mcclellan made the siege Of Yorktown {
necessity, revealed our plans, and gav'
ample time to the enemy to prepare.
"Franklin was sent dowa TOO late to Dc
any good-too feeble to accomplish at b
last hour, what was intended at Wes
Point for McDowell's whole corps q
first.
"Whcn Mccall and Wool's troops ar
rived, it was too late to do more than FL
up onr gaps, made greater by the over
working of our men on the Cbickahominy
and SO, always too feeble, we have at last
failed--and now here lies the condcmna
ton.
Gas the department got frightened, it dol
ed out to US in driblets nearly all of Mo
Dowell's corps, showing that they were no
required elsewhere, and that the Depart.
ment knew it. For certainly, With Jack
sou flushed with victory in the Valley, and
Banks and Shields routed, Washington
was in greater danger than if Mcclellan
at the head Of one hundred and sixty
thousand men, was leaving Old Point for
Richmond.
"The sending of these regiments is what
clinches the proof of wrong in withdraw.
ing them, leaving sixty thousand men
sucking their thumbs on the Rappahannock
whilst one hundred thousand were toiling
in the marshes of the Chickahomiuy, and
graphing with the whole power of the
Southern ConfedNracy."
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