The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-08-28
The Army of the Potomac.

The removal of the army of tho Potomac from
the James River to Yorktown, is the subject OF
universal graduation. The tone of the press is
ubilant over the removal of the army while it Is
severe upon the policy and strategy and general
ship which rendered this retograde movement me-
cessary. The Cincinnati Gazette says:
The withdrawal of McClellan's army from the
Peninsula comedies the disastrous military mis-
take of the plan ofmarchng TO Richmond by that
route. The general anticipations of the public
when this route was chosen have been fatally full
filled. 1t might as well be said that Napoleon
invasion of Russia failed for want of reinforc O.
ments Us to repeat this senseess cry in this case
The needed and available force was part of the
original plan. The attempt had over 40, 900 more
troops than the original plan contemplated. But
on the defensive plan OF invasion, 1t would have
failed all the same with twice the number. The
army of the whole country might have been suck.
ed into this horrible maelstrom. Successful inva
sions are impossible without prompt advances
The general vino gives three months warning OF
his approach, and sits d)wn to fortfy at every
show OF resistance, until tine enemy has time to
draft and organize troops from population of
eight millions, will always be outnumbered, and
must inevitably fail
The terrible sacrifices of this failure, in brave,
disciplined men, in money, and in delay which
has given a year to the establishment of the south
ern contederacy, have been suffered that gener-
al who had not the confidence OF the country nor
was ex pressed. The existence of the nation has
been staked to build up broken down personal
reputation. The new sacrifices which the Adj
ministratioh is calling upon the people to make
10 retrieve this disaster, demand that it shall re-
Iieye the army from the incompeency which has
DESTROYED q great army. and periled the cause
The government which lays Its strong hand on the
lives of the loyal people and devotes them to the
savatian of the nation should be equally stern in
cutting off military incapacity in every quar- ter
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Speaking of the army of the Potomac the N,
Y. Euening Post says:
OF their leader we choose to say nothing
He has b tier account enough to render to
his own conscience If his men had been less
brave; if his subordinate officers had been less
skiIlful and energetic; if it had been common
army at whose head he stood, his caution and
inAction might pass, even with himself; but
the grand army with the wreck OF which he re-
turns, the noble spirits he had to hold him to
glorious achievements, and whom he has only
and continually held back, these heroes of the
Potomac army are constant, never-dying re-
proach to him and as our gallant men are en-
deared to US by their sufferings their tolls, their
uncoDquerable spirit, so does a whole people
look askance upon the man who knew not
how to make use of such splendid material; in
whose hands all bravery, all noble devotion, all
steady valor Wac for naught.
The whole country is grateful to the army
of the Potomac, and proud of it, and its SOL
ders have a right to demand the only reward
which brave men ask i'll return for their long
and fruitless sufferings they ask to-day, as
they asked ten months ago, to be led against
the enemy, to meet face to face, the boastful
rebels whom they have never yet been permit
ted to follow up. Correspondence from Har-
rison's Landing relate that when the order
came to march, the troops broke out in wild
cheers, thinking that at last they were to be
led against Richmond, and ready then as ever
to storm those defences and to beat back that
enemy whom they would have beaten six
months ago, had they not been held back. Let
them now have the place of honor, and with
an energetic daring commander at their head
"a man who will trust to them as they de-
serve, man as quick as they are ready, as inn
petuous as they are brave, as skilful as they
are steady. They have right TO ask this fair
play; they have right to expect that they, too,
Shall have the opportunities in which troops no
drawer, no better disciplined, have, under men
like Burnside, Pope, Grant, Sige, and Tecum>
sch Sherman gained laurels and honor. They
are to enter on a new campaign; let their hearts
be gladdened by the knowledge that at their
head will be man whose presence will be guar
anty of action, and who will lead them to meet
the enemy, assured that they never meet him
but to beat him.