. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . •CLAEEMONT, THE RESIDENCE OF COMMODORE FRENCH FORREST, C. 8. PICKET POST OF THE -lOTH NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS. FROM A SKETCH MADE SEPT. 26, 1861. derstood better than any one. But his soldiers were not slow to comprehend;often the crowd has sagacious instincts, and may divine the calculations of eventhe most wary statesman. The army proved it in this case by constructing,with all the ready skiU of American backwoodsmen, log-huts to protect the
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . •CLAEEMONT, THE RESIDENCE OF COMMODORE FRENCH FORREST, C. 8. PICKET POST OF THE -lOTH NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS. FROM A SKETCH MADE SEPT. 26, 1861. derstood better than any one. But his soldiers were not slow to comprehend;often the crowd has sagacious instincts, and may divine the calculations of eventhe most wary statesman. The army proved it in this case by constructing,with all the ready skiU of American backwoodsmen, log-huts to protect themfrom the inclemencies of the season. They did well. When the snow and icerendered military operations impossible, veritable pioneers villages had grownup everywhere in the midst of the timber, and afforded the soldiers excellentshelter. The army had coolly taken the liberty of going into winter quarters,without consulting anybody. The complications of foreign politics contributed their share to restrainMcClellan, at a period when the season would yet have permitted him to acton the offensive. It was the 16th of November when the news reached i
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