. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . contributed to facilitate and hastenforward his schemes of organization. MeClellan, confined to his office,undertook the orderly and methodical concentration of the immense number MCCLELLAN ORGANIZING THE GRAND ARMY. 117 of men enrolled in the service of the republic, in the formation of his armies,and in constructing a scheme for their concerted action. General Halleck,but just then arrived in Washington, was sent to the West with extensivepowers [see Vol. I., p. 315]. McClellan
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . contributed to facilitate and hastenforward his schemes of organization. MeClellan, confined to his office,undertook the orderly and methodical concentration of the immense number MCCLELLAN ORGANIZING THE GRAND ARMY. 117 of men enrolled in the service of the republic, in the formation of his armies,and in constructing a scheme for their concerted action. General Halleck,but just then arrived in Washington, was sent to the West with extensivepowers [see Vol. I., p. 315]. McClellan assigned to him one of his best lieuten-ants, General Buell [see Vol. L, p. 385]. Finally, he prepared the great naval expeditions which should give to the Fed-■al arms Port Royal, Roanoke, and NewOrleans. Scarcely had he begun thework when the fact was borne inon him that the armies of theWest were, as regarded material,less well prepared for the of-fensive than those of the East,and as it seemed recpiisite thatthey should act together, itmay be inferred that from thefirst days of his assuming coni- post-. CLAREMONT, THE RESIDENCE OF COMMODORE FRENCH FORREST, C. S. N.— PICKET POST OF THE 40TH NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS. FROM A SKETCH MADE SEPT. 26, 1861. MT. OLIVET CHURCH ON THE OLDFAIRFAX ROAD — PICKET POSTOF THE lOTII NEW YORK VOL-UNTEERS. FROM A SKETCHMADE IN SEPT., 1861. poning till spring theoperations of theArmy of the Potomacwas explicitly deter-mined on. McClel-lan wisely concealedfrom every one thisresolution, the objec-tions to which he un-derstood better than any one. But his soldiers were not slow to comprehend;often the crowd has sagacious instincts, and may divine the calculations of eventhe most wary statesman. The army proved it in this case by constructing,with all the ready skill of American backwoodsmen, log-huts to protect themfrom the inclemencies of the season. They did well. When the snow and icerendered military operations impossible, veritable pioneers
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