. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt : giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and with Generals McDowell, McClellan, Meade, Hancock, Burnside, and others in command of the armies in the field, and his impression of these men . nt and dashing officers, pro-vided with the appliances herein described, and with the bridge torpedoesfor the destruction of bridges, could traverse the whole South and inflictirreparable damage upon the communications of the
. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt : giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and with Generals McDowell, McClellan, Meade, Hancock, Burnside, and others in command of the armies in the field, and his impression of these men . nt and dashing officers, pro-vided with the appliances herein described, and with the bridge torpedoesfor the destruction of bridges, could traverse the whole South and inflictirreparable damage upon the communications of the enemy. If a work-ing force of 2,200 men can destroy five miles of track in one hour, andtwo or three men to a span, with the use of the torpedoes, throw down thelargest bridges in five minutes, the movement of the forces can be toorapid to admit of pursuit, except by cavalry, to prevent which thenumerical strength should be great enough to oppose any possible forceof cavalry that the enemy can bring against it. Eresh horses shouldbe seized, wherever practicable, and abandoned ones shot. The telegraph should be cut frequently; but instead of leaving theends loose, the break should be at a pole, and the ends connected bysmall pieces of insulated wire, concealed by the insulators, so that thepoint of break would not be discernible. d so fI o O580) W ao 5o td w ^^ wo. GENERAL HERMAN HAUPT, 203 On an expedition of this kind a few men, expert in repairs of track,bridges, and telegraph lines, would prove of great value. Still more im-portant is it that the officers, and at least a portion of the force, say oneor two men in each squad, should be actually drilled in laying track andin tearing it up, and in bending and twisting old and useless rails, if anycan be found. In the hope that the results of these experiments will prove benefi-cial for the service, they are respectfully submitted by H. HAUPT, Brigadier-General,In Charge of United States Military Railroads. CHAPTEE FL
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