Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . ne easiest to accomplish andhardest to resist. When they fancied that theysaw the Army of the Potomac preparing to move,it was this plan alone of which they thought; andthey immediately gave up their position, as theyhad been for weeks preparing to do, at the firstintimation of a forward movement. The longdelay of five months, during three of which theroads were in unusually fine condition,1 during all 1 Pollards History, Vol. I., p. From the admirable monograph184, says: A long, lingering of M
Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . ne easiest to accomplish andhardest to resist. When they fancied that theysaw the Army of the Potomac preparing to move,it was this plan alone of which they thought; andthey immediately gave up their position, as theyhad been for weeks preparing to do, at the firstintimation of a forward movement. The longdelay of five months, during three of which theroads were in unusually fine condition,1 during all 1 Pollards History, Vol. I., p. From the admirable monograph184, says: A long, lingering of Major-General A. S. Webb,Indian summer, with roads more Chief-of-Staff of the Army of thehard and skies more beautiful Potomac, entitled The Penin-than Virginia had seen for many sula, we quote a sentence on thisa year, invited the enemy to ad- subject: During all the timevance. Johnston, Narrative, Johnstons army lay at Centre-page 84, says that the roads were ville insolently menacing Wash-practicable until the last of De- ington ... it never presented ancember. effective strength of over fifty. THE DEFENSES OF WASHINGTON DURING THE ANTIETAM CAMPAIGN,SEPTEMBER 1-20, 1862. Exteusive additions to the defenses of the west bank of the Potomac were madesubsequently. Forts Alexander, Franklin, and Ripley were afterward united andcalled redoubts Davis, Kirby, and Crosn, receiving later the name of Fort De Kalb, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Blenker were afterward changedrespectively to Strong, Stevens, Reno, and Reynolds. See also page 168, Vol. IX. MANASSAS EVACUATED 177 of which the Union forces were as three to one of chap. enemy, remains absolutely without excuse. Itcan only be explained by that idiosyncrasy of Gen-eral McClellan which led him always to double ortreble the number of an enemy and the obstacles inhis immediate vicinity. It is little blame to Confederate generals thatthey could not divine what General McClellan wasdoing with the grand army of t
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