. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . .«; \ WHERE THE COMMANDER HEARD THE C ANNONADING The Hudson farmhouse, with its mossy shingles, vines, and aged locust trees, suggests anything but thestorm-center of a nation at war. Yet it was here that General John Pope set up his headquarters while hiseight thousand trained soldiers under General Banks sped toward Gordonsville, to strike the first blow ofwhat the new general had promised would be a series of \ictories. As this picture was taken, the NewYork Herald wagon stands plainly in view to the left of the porch; the newsp
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . .«; \ WHERE THE COMMANDER HEARD THE C ANNONADING The Hudson farmhouse, with its mossy shingles, vines, and aged locust trees, suggests anything but thestorm-center of a nation at war. Yet it was here that General John Pope set up his headquarters while hiseight thousand trained soldiers under General Banks sped toward Gordonsville, to strike the first blow ofwhat the new general had promised would be a series of \ictories. As this picture was taken, the NewYork Herald wagon stands plainly in view to the left of the porch; the newspaper correspondents preparedto despatch big stories. John Pope was the leader whose swift success in capturing New Madrid and. POPES HEADQUARTERS DURING THE BATTLE OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN Island Number Ten in the Mississippi campaign formed a brilliant contrast, in the po])ular mind, to the failureof the Eastern armies in their attempt upon Richmond. Pope himself proclaimed, I have come to you fromthe West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies. So he set out for the front with head-quarters in the saddle. He could not know what the world later learned—that Robert E. Lee and Stone-w-all Jackson were generals before whose genius few opponents, however brave, could make headway-And so it was too late when Pope heard the cannonading from the Hudson house on the 9th of August.
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