, 1880-12-12

| His Campaign Before Richmond -
| Progress of the Great Democratic Un-
| rcudy-T1e Mnrc1 to Yorktown
| Heintzclman Wants to Assault nj
| Once-NcCleIlan Sits Down to Siege
| Operations Against am Open Country
on n Line Of Thirteen NkIlc$-Elcycx,
Thousand Hen Stop His Great Army
Mcclellan Slarivelx Up His Own Nusn-
ber, and NIultlpIfcs the Encnly-Fhe
Nfonth's Siege Fixes the Fate OF the
Campaign.
Gen. i:oynto's in The Cincinnati Gazette
The first troops embarked for Fort Monroe
! were Of 11eintzelman's corps. The word
corps is used for convenience; Mcclellan was
still resisting the Presidents order to orsiu-
I. ize his troops by army corps; i'll fact this
was never carried out, but mt last the nature
/ of ARMY corps was used for commands, which
on the Peninsula were five in number, and
which Kept on increasing until at Gettysburg
the Twelfth Corps is mentioned Thus tho
Army OF the Potomac was never organized,
and 1t suffered serious disasters from this
Multipllcation?ofc commands.
The first division embarked was Ieintzcl-
mans olti division, now under the immediate
command OF Gen. c. S. Hamilton, at Alexan-
dria, March II, arriving at Fort Monroe tho
18th. Fitz John Porter's division of the
same corps embarked tho I'D, and IIeintzei~
man with It, arriving next day, and going
into camp. McClellan's orders were 1to en-
camp as near to Fort Monroe as possible, so
rs not to give the enemy any idea Of the
direction in which we were going to move,
whether toward Yorktown or toward Nor
foik." StrategicaIlrthi immense prrpar,t
ton and movement was secret. Gen. Keyes'
corps began to arrive on the 25th. On the
29th lIs!lstxeinaa sent reconnaissance as
t. Tar as Big Bethel, and out on Wasts' Greek,
finding very few Of the enemy at Big Bethel
lie reported this to Mcclellan, who sent an
answer 0f reproying tenor, hoping lie had
done nothing to disclose the plans to the
enemy, S:rategicaIIy the enemy were
o l'uaK a1rye tafy are Iaw th5oa 5 il all
Hclntzclman, and then an advance was de-
ternine.i; lleintzelman relates that he, with
two divisions, and keyes, with two divisions.
making ABOUT 4o,oo0 men, marched on tho
4tll, and early next day were before York
town. aicC!ellan enusnerates, besides these,
as marching OH the 4th. Sedgwick's and
5mlth's divisions, Averili's, and tho Fifth
kxHgular Cayalry: and the reserve cavalry, ar
amounted to 10000 or 50 900 1T least. Heint-
zeinan says that tho information which he
ootalneti Ut the ene1ny's force was that there
were about $500 on the peninsula, and Ger
tainly not to exceed 10, 600. He said:
think ii | had been permitted when ( first
landed TO advance I could hnrc Isolated tho
troops at Yorktown. anH the plnce would have
fMticn III few days: but my orders were very
stF1cl nor TO make amy demonstration, and ey-
nected Zen. MGCIclhtn every DAY, 80 / waited I
1 anouSnt trom tho tsnur OF his ,elcsra.n that ho
ncthel. although remained there ouiy two OF
three hours. ~
Mcclellan, while strategicaIIy assuming
that the enemy would remain Ignorant of lis
desiEn until he chose to sound it BY trumpet,
Generals Ignorant Of his intentions. HeInt-
zelman says that when he hatt reached the
front Of Yorktown he knew nothing Of Nc