Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . be adopted in the new condition of af-fairs. This sketch or outline he added to from timeto time during the succeeding days. On the 23dand 27th days of July he seems to have matured hisreflections on the late disaster, and with his ownhand he carefully copied his memorandum in thiscompleted form: July 23,1861. 1. Let the plan for making the blockade effective bepushed forward with all possible dispatch. 2. Let the volunteer forces at Fort Monroe and vicin-ity, under General Butler, be constantl
Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . be adopted in the new condition of af-fairs. This sketch or outline he added to from timeto time during the succeeding days. On the 23dand 27th days of July he seems to have matured hisreflections on the late disaster, and with his ownhand he carefully copied his memorandum in thiscompleted form: July 23,1861. 1. Let the plan for making the blockade effective bepushed forward with all possible dispatch. 2. Let the volunteer forces at Fort Monroe and vicin-ity, under General Butler, be constantly drilled, disci-plined, and instructed without more for the present. 3. Let Baltimore be held as now, with a gentle but firmand certain hand. 4. Let the force now under Patterson or Banks bestrengthened and made secure in its position. 5. Let the forces in Western Virginia act till furtherorders according to instructions or orders from GeneralMcClellan. 6. General Fremont push forward his organization andoperations in the West as rapidly as possible, giving ratherspecial attention to WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON. BULL RUN 369 7. Let the forces late before Manassas, except the three chap. men, be reorganized as rapidly as possible in their camps here and about Arlington. 8. Let the three months forces who decline to enter thelonger service be discharged as rapidly as circumstanceswill permit. 9. Let the new volunteer forces be brought forward asfast as possible; and especially into the camps on the twosides of the river here. July 27,1861. When the foregoing shall have been substantially at-tended to: 1. Let Manassas Junction (or some point on one orother of the railroads near it) and Strasburg be seized,and permanently held, with an open line from Washing-ton to Manassas, and an open line from Harpers Ferryto Strasburg — the military men to find the way of doingthese. 2. This done, a joint movement from Cairo on Memphis; from Cincinnati on East Tennessee
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