. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . the decisive defeatof McClellan before Richmond compelled an alteration ^ According to the oflBcial records the effective force of the Union armyin these battles was 105,000. McClellan reports his losses as follows:1,734 killed, 8,062 wounded, and 6,053 captured or missing—15,849. Otherauthorities put the Union loss at 20,000, and this is probably nearer t
. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . the decisive defeatof McClellan before Richmond compelled an alteration ^ According to the oflBcial records the effective force of the Union armyin these battles was 105,000. McClellan reports his losses as follows:1,734 killed, 8,062 wounded, and 6,053 captured or missing—15,849. Otherauthorities put the Union loss at 20,000, and this is probably nearer thecorrect figures. President Lincoln visited the army at Harrisons Land-ing and found 86,000 men there. Thousands of McClellans wounded fellinto the hands of the Confederates and were counted by them as amongtheir prisoners. The Confederate records are imperfect, many of thembeing lost at the evacuation of Richmond in 1865. As near as can beascertained Lees effective force in these battles was 80,000. His losseswere 3,288 killed, 15,909 wounded, and 940 captured or missing—20, the Confederates in every instance attacked strongly entrenchedlines, their losses in killed and wounded were much heavier than those oftbe 188 Story of the Confederate States. of the whole plan of campaign. In order to secureproper co-operation between McClellan and Pope, itwas decided by the government at Washington to callHalleck from the West and make him commander-in-chief. This calling of Halleck to Washington stoppedfor a while all aggressive movements of the Federalsin the W^est. So decisive was the great Confederatevictory before Richmond, that it broke up the Unionplan of operations for 1862, both in the East and inthe West. 30. Halleck now ordered McClellan to send his armyaround by Aquia Creek, that it might be united withthe force under Pope, and that a new advance uponRichmond might be made. Lee was uncertain as towhat course the Federals would adopt, and was anxiousto f
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