. Popular history of the civil war . re also takenon the streets. And this was but a sample of the spiritthroughout the entire country. With the battle of Chantilly,Popes career ended in Virginia. He asked to be relievedof his command, and was assigned to the Department of theNorth-West, on the 8th of September. At the urgent entreaty of his friends. McClellan was againplaced in command of all the armies of Virginia, under theold name of the Army of the Potomac. Tlie soldiers re-ceived him with shouts of joy. McClellans wonderful skillin gathering, organizing, and training an army, is admitted
. Popular history of the civil war . re also takenon the streets. And this was but a sample of the spiritthroughout the entire country. With the battle of Chantilly,Popes career ended in Virginia. He asked to be relievedof his command, and was assigned to the Department of theNorth-West, on the 8th of September. At the urgent entreaty of his friends. McClellan was againplaced in command of all the armies of Virginia, under theold name of the Army of the Potomac. Tlie soldiers re-ceived him with shouts of joy. McClellans wonderful skillin gathering, organizing, and training an army, is admittedby every one. With all his might he began to get this vastbody of men ready to be again set in motion, \)n the I St of July the President had called for threenundred thousand men, to serve till the war was over. InJune he had asked for forty thousand, for a term of threemonths. Now, on the 9th of August, he again appealed tothe people for three hundred thousand more, to serve fornine months. At the end of that time a draft was to be. i862.] A New Commander. 285 ordered, unless three hundred thousand men volunteeredto take the places of those whose time should then call was promptly answered, as Abraham of old answeredthe call of the angel of the Lord, Here am I. But Gen-eral Lee thought that it would be safer not to wait for thesefresh troops to be equipped, and sent to the field : so hebegan operations at once. In the fourteen months since the fall of Sumter, the wholenation, from Maine to Florida, had burst forth into singingwar-songs. The war was the one idea filling the publicmind. No doubt these songs encouraged patriotism, stimu-lated the men in the field, and helped their friends at hometo bear their absence. One of the prettiest of them was arebel song called My Maryland. General Lee, behevingthis song to be the voice of the people, expected Maryland to — Burst the tyrants chain, and flock to the rebel standard, if it were only once borneinto that State. He
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