. Battle-fields of the South : from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh ; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps . THE FEDERALS IN VIRGINIA. 499 RVTmed a position wKicb, fortified as he alone knows how,might have defied the best and most numerous armies in theworld. McClellan was shrewd, and fully alive to the difficul-ties of that route; he had no supplies at hand in such a region,and could not be regularly served by his trains over a desertedand mountainous country. More than this, the possession ofWinchester gave opportunities for Lee to pass between himand Washington. Hav
. Battle-fields of the South : from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh ; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps . THE FEDERALS IN VIRGINIA. 499 RVTmed a position wKicb, fortified as he alone knows how,might have defied the best and most numerous armies in theworld. McClellan was shrewd, and fully alive to the difficul-ties of that route; he had no supplies at hand in such a region,and could not be regularly served by his trains over a desertedand mountainous country. More than this, the possession ofWinchester gave opportunities for Lee to pass between himand Washington. Having again fortified Harpers Ferry, the Federal armypoured into Virginia, and^ took up their line of march east ofthe Blue Ridge; thus always presenting front to Lee, who ina parallel line slowly proceeded up the Valley, carefully watch-ing any weakness in their front through which he could breakand-disjoint it. Both generals were looking into each otherseyes; but McClellan might have gazed for ever, and neverdivined any thing flitting across the mind of the calm-faced,smiling, modest, and unpretending visage of Lee. His facewa
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