 | 1863 - 856 pages
...BaJtiown and Ohio railroad. This presented (or would prcsrci. when McDowell and Suinncr should be gone) My explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of corps, be left enurdy secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell.... | |
 | 1863 - 848 pages
...McDowell and Sumner should be gone) a great temptation to the enemy to torn back from the Rappshannock and sack Washington. My explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1863 - 766 pages
...This presented (or would present, when McDowell and Surnner should be gone) a great temptation for the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My explicit directions that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of corps, be left entirely... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1863 - 778 pages
...railroad. This presented (or would present, when McDowell and Simmer should be gone) a great temptation for the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My explicit directions that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of corps, be left entirely... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1863 - 770 pages
...This presented (or would present, when McDowell and Sumner should be gone) a great temptation for tlio enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My explicit directions that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of corps, be left entirely... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 pages
...(or would present, when McDowell and Sumner should be gone) a great temptation to the enemy to tarn the Ameri ho left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell.... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 150 pages
...you as occasion may require. u EDWIN M. STANTON, " Secretary of War. ' "General GB MCCLELLAN." * j the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack...explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of nil the commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 492 pages
...a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My implicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all...corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. 3t was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell. I do not forget that I was satisfied with your... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...Potomac and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. This presented, or would present, when McDowell and Sumner should be gone, a great temptation to the enemy to...back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My implicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of army corps, be left... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 pages
...Potomac and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. This presented, or would present, when McDowell and Sumnet should be gone, a great temptation to the enemy to...back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My implicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of army corps, be left... | |
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Banks's corps, once designed for* Manassas Junction, was diverted and tied up on the line of Winchester and Strasburg, and could not leave it without again exposing the Upper Potomac and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. This - presented (or would present... 
