 | 1889 - 1060 pagini
...McDowell's corps, he was quite gracious in his acknowledgments to the Government. He said, June 7 : I am glad to learn that you are pressing forward reinforcements...and the ground will admit the passage of artillery. McCall and his perfectly appointed division of ten thousand men and five batteries of artillery began... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1863 - 770 pagini
...was ordered to join the army on the peninsula. On the 8th of June General McClellan telegraphs : " I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and take Richmond the moment that McCall reaches here and the ground will admit the passage of artillery." On the 10th or 11th of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1863 - 778 pagini
...was ordered to join the army on the peninsula. On the 8th of June General McClellan telegraphs : " I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and take Richmond the moment that McCall reaches here and the ground will admit the passage of artillery." On the 10th or 11th of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1863 - 766 pagini
...was ordered to join the army on the peninsula. On the 8th of June General McClellan telegraphs : " I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and take Richmond the moment that McCall reaches here aud the ground will admit the passage of artillery." On the 10th or llth of... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 198 pagini
...state that the Chickahominy river has risen so as to flood the entire bottoms to the depth of three and four feet; I am pushing forward the bridges in spite...to-day, driving off the rebel pickets, and securing r very advantageous position. The rebels have several batteries established, commanding the debouches... | |
 | George Brinton MACCLELLAN (General.) - 1864 - 676 pagini
...directly in the narrow roads, which renders any general movement either of this or the rebel army utterly out of the question, until we have more favorable...pickets, and securing a very advantageous position. our working parties continually, but as yet they have killed but very few of our men. GB McCLELLAN,... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 280 pagini
...we have more favorable weather. " I am glad to learn that you are pressing forward re-enforceinents so vigorously. " I shall be in perfect readiness to...pickets and securing a very advantageous position. 116 REPORT OF GENERAL GEORGE B. M'CLELLAN. " The rebels have several batteries established, commanding... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 pagini
...might be. Gen. McClellan responded:" " I am glad to learn that you are pressing forward reenforceraents r ; and when your country is actually in war, whether it bo a. milo to-day; driving ort' the Rebel pickets, and securing a very advantageous position." He soon afterward... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 518 pagini
...sent him word that troops had been embarked for him at Baltimore, to which he replied on the 7th, " I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and...and the ground will admit the passage of artillery." On the 10th, General McCall's forces began to arrive at White House, and on the same day General McClellan... | |
 | J. G. BARNARD - 1864 - 118 pagini
...numbers," and authorize his otherwise illogical statement (see telegram, June 7th, p. 115) that he should be " in perfect readiness" to move forward and " take...and the ground will admit the passage of artillery." With " superior numbers" of the enemy and " strong works" around Richmond, it is astonishing with what... | |
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I am glad to learn that you are pressing forward reinforcements so vigorously. I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and take Richmond the moment McCall reaches here, and the ground will' admit the passage of artillery. 
