The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union . James river to Hog Island. Part of the blame, however, was laidon the hasty retreat from Norfolk of the militaryunder Gen. Iluger. ?August 4, 1861. * He says: Its general line of operations should be sodirected that water transportation can be availedof, from point to point,
The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union . James river to Hog Island. Part of the blame, however, was laidon the hasty retreat from Norfolk of the militaryunder Gen. Iluger. ?August 4, 1861. * He says: Its general line of operations should be sodirected that water transportation can be availedof, from point to point, by means of the oceanand the rivers emptying into it. An essentialfeature of the plan of operations wiU be theemployment of a strong naval force, to protectthe movements of a fleet of transports intendedto convey a considerable body of troops frompoint to point of the enemys sea-coast, thuscitlier creating diversions, and rendering it neces-sary to detach largely from their main body inorder to protect such of their cities as may bethreatened, or else landing and forming estab-lishments on their coast, at any favorable placesthat opportunity might offer. This naval forceshould also cooperfito with the main army, in itsefforts to seize the important sea-board towns ofthe Rebola.—McCkllans Official ^y WASHINGTON CITY TO BE COVERED. 129 averaged about 220,000 men, wasat no time large enougli, accordingto his computation, to justify a deter-mined oftensive, since he persisted incomputing the Rebel army confront-ing him at no less than 150,000strong, well drilled and equipped,ably commanded and strongly in-trenched. Now, tlie movement first contem-plated, by way of the Rappahannockand Urban a—still more, that ulti-mately decided on by way of FortressMonroe and the Peninsula—involveda division of this army, and the reser-vation of a considerable part of it forthe protection of Washington, as alsothe securing of Maryland and theBaltimore and Ohio Railroad fromdeso
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