. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . MAP OF THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGNS. liim, even for the transaction of ordinary cnrrent bnsiness, and our jiersonalrelations at once ceased. The impatience of the Execntive immediatelybecame extreme, and I can attribute it only to the influence of the newSecretary, who did many things to break up the free and confidential inter-course that had heretofore existed between the President and myself. TheGovernment soon manifested great impatience in rega
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . MAP OF THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGNS. liim, even for the transaction of ordinary cnrrent bnsiness, and our jiersonalrelations at once ceased. The impatience of the Execntive immediatelybecame extreme, and I can attribute it only to the influence of the newSecretary, who did many things to break up the free and confidential inter-course that had heretofore existed between the President and myself. TheGovernment soon manifested great impatience in regard to the opening ofthe Baltimore and Ohio Eailroad and the destruction of the Confederatebatteries on the Potomac. The first object could be permanently attained onlyby occupying the Shenandoah Valley with a force strong enough to resistany attack by the Confederate army then at Manassas; the second only by THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN. 165. QUARTERMASTERS DOCK, FORT MONROE. FROM A SKETCH MADE IN 1862. a general advance of tlie Army of the Potomac, driving the enemy back of theRapidan. My own view was that the movement of the Army of the Potomacfrom Urbana wonld accomplish both of these objects, by forcing the enemyto abandon all his positions and fall back on Richmond. I was thereforeunwilling to interfere with this plan by a premature advance, the effect ofwhich must be either to commit us to the overland route, or to minimize theadvantages of the Urbana movement. I wished to hold the enemy atManassas to the last moment—if possible until the advance from Urbanahad actually commenced, for neither the reopening of the railroad nor thedestruction of the batteries was worth the danger involved. The positive order of the President, probably issued under the pressiu-e ofthe Secretary of War, forced me to undertake the opening of the this purpose I went to Harpers Ferry in February, intending to throwover a force
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