Life and campaigns of General Robert ELee . W^^ ^^1 174 LIFE OF GENEEAL LEE. This movement was the last made by McCIellan previous tohis withdrawal from the Peninsula. The reasons which causedthe abandonment of the campaign by the Army of the Potomacwill be discussed in another part of this work. Here I canonly mention the fact. The evacuation of Harrisons Landingwas commenced on the 16th, a part of the army and the storesbeing sent off by water, and the remainder taking the routedown the Peninsula to Yorktown and Fortress Monroe, and bythe 18th the rear-guard had crossed the Chickahominy. As
Life and campaigns of General Robert ELee . W^^ ^^1 174 LIFE OF GENEEAL LEE. This movement was the last made by McCIellan previous tohis withdrawal from the Peninsula. The reasons which causedthe abandonment of the campaign by the Army of the Potomacwill be discussed in another part of this work. Here I canonly mention the fact. The evacuation of Harrisons Landingwas commenced on the 16th, a part of the army and the storesbeing sent off by water, and the remainder taking the routedown the Peninsula to Yorktown and Fortress Monroe, and bythe 18th the rear-guard had crossed the Chickahominy. As soon as he was satisfied that McCIellan was withdrawins:from the James Eiver, General Lee put his army in motion forGeneral Jacksons position on the Rapidan, where it arrivedabout the fifteenth of GENERAL POPE IN VIPiGINIA. 175 rv. THE CAMPAIGN IK NORTHEM YIRGINIA. August, 1862. GENEKAL POPE IN VIRGINIA. The doubt in which the Federal authorities were left by thedisappearance of General Jacksons army from the Valley ofVirginia, was decided by the sudden and fatal blow which hestruck their army at Cold Harbor. He was no longer in aposition to threaten Washington, but he had produced such awholesome dread of his sudden movements that President Lin-coln and his military advisers resolved to retain a large forcebetween Washington and the Rappahannock. Accordingly thecommands of Fremont and Banks were moved east of themountains, and together with McDowells corps were consoli-dated into one command, numbering in all about sixty thousandmen, under the name of the Army of Virginia. The command of this army was conferred upon Major-Gen-eral John Pope, who had been one of General Hallecks divis-ion commanders in the West, where he had distinguished him-self by the paper victories he had
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