New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-10-14

expects to crush them and move for
ward to the Potomac. You must send
reinfercemsnts instantly to Aqsi'
Greek. Considering the amount 0
transportation 1t your disposal, you
delay is not satisfactory"
This was but six days after the or
der for the movement of the whole ar
my consisting of eighty to ninety thou
sand men with all it's material, hat
been given. General Mcclellan sale
in his reply: -"Ther. has been no uu
necessary delay a. you assert, not an
hour; but everything has been pushed
as rapidly as possible to carry ou'
your orders.
On tho 10Th Of August, Gen. Hal
leck telegraphed Gen. Mcclellan a,
follows:
"The enemy is crossing the Rapidan
in large force. They are fighting Gen
Pope to-day; there must be no furthe.
delay in your movements. That
which hos already occurred was en-
tirely unexpected and must be salts
factorlly explained. Let not q mo.
nent be lost and telegraph me daily
what progress you have made in exc
cutting the order to transfer your
troops"
Gen. Mcclellan in his reply
said:
~ assure you agaia, that ther
has been no unnecessary delay in
out your orders
And after detailing the progress
made and making, he added;
"The present moment is probably
not the proper one for me to refer to
the unnecessarily harsh and unjust
tone of your telegrams of late. 1t will
however, make no difference in my
official acticn."
On this 40 on other occasions, it
seems to have been thought At Wash
ington that large armies with oil their
can be moved hun ndreds of
miles as easily As = flock Of wild
geese and almost as quickly There
would have been no occasion for Gen.
llallecks i'll humor in this fcase, if he
had given the order to trsnsfer two or
hree weeks sooner.
Ina message to the President on
he 18th of August, he said;
"Tell me what you wish me to do
and l will do oil in my power ito ae'
;omplish it. l wish to know what my
orders and authority ale. I ssk for
but will obey whatever or
lers you may give. I only ask a
prompt decision, that l may at once
give the necessary orders. Il will no t
10 to delay any longer"
A copy Of the Same message was
sent to General Has!eck; but to that
portion Of it, no answer was returned.
On the 30,h the sound Of battle was
heard in Alexandra, and General Nc
Clellan telegraphed, as follows to Gen
erai Halleck:
II cannot express to you the pain
and modification have experienced
to-day in listening to the distant sound
Of the firing of my men. Al I can be
Of no further use here, I respectfully
ask that if there is probability Of the
conflict being renewed tomorrow l
may be permitted to go to tho scene
of battle with my staff, merely to be
with my own men, If nothing more;
they will fight none the worse for my
being with them. Ifit is not deemed
best to intrust me with the command,
even Of my own army, simply ask to
be perm,tted to share their fate on the
field of battle. Please reply to this to-
night"
It appears that Gen Halleck did
not read the tdsspatch until the next
day, when he merely replied, 81 can.
not answer without seeing the Presi-
dent, as Gen. Pope il in command by
his orders, Of the Department" As
General McClellao did not ask the
command Of his men, but only to "share
their fate on the field Of BATTLE" this