The Strategy of Robert E. LeeNeale Publishing Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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A. P. Hill advance ammunition Army of Northern artillery assault attack batteries Beauregard brigade Bull Run burg Burnside campaign captured Cashtown cavalry Centerville Chambersburg Chancellorsville Colonel Mosby column command Confederacy corps crossed Culp's Hill D. H. Hill defeat defense division Emmitsburg Emmitsburg road enemy enemy's eral Ewell field fight fire flank force Fredericksburg front Gettysburg Gettysburg campaign Gordonsville Grant guns Halleck Harper's Ferry HEADQUARTERS Hooker Hunt says infantry intrenchments Jackson James river JEFFERSON DAVIS Johnston Lee's army letter Lincoln Little Round Top Longstreet says loss lost Malvern Hill Manassas mand Maryland McClellan McDowell McDowell's McLaws Meade Meade's ment miles military morning move movement night North Northern Virginia officers passed Pickett Pope position Potomac R. E. LEE Rapidan rear regiments reinforcements repulse retreat Rhodes says Richmond Round Top Schurz Sedgwick sent soldiers South staff Stuart success troops victory Washington wounded wrote
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Page 76 - I think Lee has made a gross mistake, and that he will be severely punished for it. The army is in motion as rapidly as possible.
Page 57 - I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence.
Page 99 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 99 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Page 65 - I am clear that one of two courses should be adopted : first, to concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope ; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe.
Page 58 - taking strong positions and holding them," of "lines of retreat," and of "bases of supplies.
Page 57 - I presume that I have been called here to pursue the same system and to lead you against the enemy. It is my purpose to do so, and that speedily.
Page 81 - At that moment —Virginia lost, Washington menaced, Maryland invaded — the national cause could afford no risks of defeat. One battle lost, and almost all would have been lost. Lee's army might then have marched as it pleased on Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, or New York.
Page 39 - Intelligence from various quarters leaves no doubt that the enemy in great force are marching on Washington. You will please organize and forward immediately all the militia and volunteer force in your State...
Page 75 - I have all the plans of the rebels, and will catch them in their own trap, if my men are equal to the emergency.