 | Jesse Ames Spencer - 1866 - 620 páginas
...6th, Halleck sent a telegram of a peremptory sort > " I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The president directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Youi army must move now, while the roads STUART'S CAVALRY RAID. 235 are good. If you cross the river... | |
 | 1889 - 1060 páginas
...WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN : I am instructed to telegraph you as follows: The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy - In his memoirs McClellan tries to create the im- ble purpose is to see the troops and the battle-field... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1862 - 268 páginas
...WA8HINGTON, DC, October 6, 1862. MAJOR GENERAL. MC€LBLLAN : I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...Your army must move now, while the roads are good. If you cross the river between the enemy and Washington, and cover the latter by your line of operations,... | |
 | 1863 - 856 páginas
...had swollen the Potomac and impaired the roads. On the 6th of October he was peremptorily ordered to "cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or...Your army must move now, while the roads are good." It will be observed that three weeks have elapsed since this order was given. In regard to Gen. McClellan's... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1863 - 766 páginas
...pm] WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, DC, October 6, 1862. I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...Your army must move now, while the roads are good. If you cross the river between the enemy and Washington, and cover the latter by your line of operations,... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1863 - 888 páginas
...WASUIXOTOU, D. С., October 6, 1362. Major- General McCMlan : I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...Your army must move now while the roads are good. If you cross the river between the enemy and Washington, and cover the latter by your line of operation,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1863 - 770 páginas
...pm] WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, DC, October 6, 1862. I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...Your army must move now, while the roads are good. If you cross the river between the enemy and Washington, and cover the latter by your line of operations,... | |
 | 1863 - 848 páginas
...McCIellan: WieniHGTOH, DC, Oct. 6, ISiS. My.-Gen. McCIellan: I am instructed to telegraph to you as follow*: The President directs that you cross the Potomac and...him south. Your army must move now while the roads arc good. If you cross the river between the enemy and Washington, and cover the latter by your line... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1863 - 852 páginas
...swollen the Potomac wd impaired the roads. On the sixth of Ocióte he was peremptorily ordered : " To cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or...drive him south. Your army must move now, while the rotds are good." It will be observed that three weeks have elapsed since this order was firen. 4. In... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1863 - 778 páginas
...m ] WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, DC, October 6, 1862. I am instructed to telegraph you as follows : The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him eouth. Your army must move now, while the roads are good. If you cross the river between the enemy... | |
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The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. 
