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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 3 (search)
dictating a movement of the Army of the Potomac against Manassas, the President had decreed that a general movement of the land and naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces should be made on the 22d day of February. This order, styled President's General War Order, No. 1, was issued on the 27th of January, without consultation with General McClellan (Report. p. 42). It is as follows: Executive Mansion, Washington, January 27, 1862. Ordered, That the 22d day of February, 1862, be the day for a general movement of the land and naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces. That especially the army at and about Fortress Monroe, the Army of the Potomac, the Army of Western Virginia, the army near Mumfordsville, Kentucky, the army and flotilla at Cairo, and a naval force in the Gulf of Mexico, be ready to move on that day. That all other forces, both land and naval, with their respective commanders, obey existing orders for the time, and