. The century illustrated monthly magazine . been under fire. With such anarmy a general as cautious as McClellan doesnot take great risks, nor put the safety of hisarmy rashly to the touch, to win or lose itall. General McClellan was inclined by na-ture to magnify the forces of the enemy, andhad he known General Lees weakness hewould have ventured more. Yet when weremember what Pope had done and sufferedjust before, and what happened to Burnsideand Hooker not long after, their friends canhardly sit in judgment upon McClellan. On the afternoon of the 13th Colonel Miles,in command at Harpers Fe
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . been under fire. With such anarmy a general as cautious as McClellan doesnot take great risks, nor put the safety of hisarmy rashly to the touch, to win or lose itall. General McClellan was inclined by na-ture to magnify the forces of the enemy, andhad he known General Lees weakness hewould have ventured more. Yet when weremember what Pope had done and sufferedjust before, and what happened to Burnsideand Hooker not long after, their friends canhardly sit in judgment upon McClellan. On the afternoon of the 13th Colonel Miles,in command at Harpers Ferry, made the fatalmistake of withdrawing his troops from Mary-land Heights, and giving it up to has said, He who wars walks in amist through which the keenest eyes cannotalways discern the right path. But it doesseem that even Colonel Miles or GeneralWhite might have known that to abandonthese Heights under the circumstances wassimply suicidal.* Jackson met with so much delay in openingcommunication with McLaws and Walker and. GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH IN KEEDYSVILLE, USED AS AUNION HOSPITAL. (FROM A RECENT PHOTOGRAPH.) * In his official report General White says: Itwill be noticed that Colonel Ford claims to havebeen ordered by Colonel Miles to evacuate theheights. Colonel Miles, however, denied to me
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