Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . line of operations] in 1864-5 ? Let us see. The central army under McClellan rested from the day ofBull Run until autumn and winter had passed, until the mudhad dried up and dust had taken its place, until the summerheat had become quite as uncomfortable as the previous coldexperiences in winter quarters. The army of McClellan mighthave moved when Burnside landed at Hatteras. Thirty thou-sand men could have been swung around into Albemarlesound to reinforce our
Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . line of operations] in 1864-5 ? Let us see. The central army under McClellan rested from the day ofBull Run until autumn and winter had passed, until the mudhad dried up and dust had taken its place, until the summerheat had become quite as uncomfortable as the previous coldexperiences in winter quarters. The army of McClellan mighthave moved when Burnside landed at Hatteras. Thirty thou-sand men could have been swung around into Albemarlesound to reinforce our army in North Carolina, which wouldthen move on Richmonds southern communications. Sendingan army of twenty or thirty thousand to City Point on theJames, with McClellan moving from the Potomac or thePeninsula in earnest, the war would have soon of that, Burnsides troops were spread out thin, werecompelled to hold positions which were of no practical advan-tage in the general conduct of the war. Such ideas as wehave here expressed were entertained by many of our officersin North Carolina during the spring of
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