. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . eyance, from a canal-boat to a hugethree-decked steamboat, seemed to have been pressed into the service. Atlast, when drills and inspections had made us almost frantic with neatnessand cleanhness, our marching orders came. We formed in two ranks andboarded a little steamer lying at the wharf near by. All heavy baggage wasleft behind. I had clung to the contents of my knapsack with doggedtenacity; but, notwithstanding my most earnest protest, I
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . eyance, from a canal-boat to a hugethree-decked steamboat, seemed to have been pressed into the service. Atlast, when drills and inspections had made us almost frantic with neatnessand cleanhness, our marching orders came. We formed in two ranks andboarded a little steamer lying at the wharf near by. All heavy baggage wasleft behind. I had clung to the contents of my knapsack with doggedtenacity; but, notwithstanding my most earnest protest, I was required toleave about one-half of them, including a pair of heavy boots and a choicebrick from the Harpers Ferry engine-house. To my mind I was now en-tirely destitute of comforts^ The general opinion among us was that at last we were on our way tomake an end of the Confederacy. We gathered in little knots on the deck:here and there a party were playing penny ante; others slept or dozed, butthe majority smoked and discussed the probabilities of our destination, aboutwhich we really knew nothing, except that we were sailing down the TBANSPOETS ON THE POTOMAC. BASED UPON A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH, FORT MONROE- PARADE OF THE 3D PENNSYLVANIA ARTILLERV. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN BY GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, MAJOR-GENERAL, U. S. A. IN the following pages I purpose to give a brief sketch of the Peninsularcampaign of As it is impossible, within the limits available, todescribe even the most important battles, I shall confine myself to strategicalconsiderations. But even this requires a rapid review of the cii-cumstancesunder which, from a small assemblage of unorganized citizens, utterly igno-rant of war and almost of the use of arms, was evolved that mighty Army ofthe Potomac, which, unshaken alike in victory and defeat, dm-ing a long seriesof arduous campaigns against an army most ably commanded and the equalin heroism of any that ever met the shock of
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