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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
IV.
the Peninsular campaign.
March—August, 1862.
I. Before Yorktown.
To take up an army of over one hundred thousand men, transport it and all its immense material by water, and plant it down on a new theatre of operations near two hundred miles distant, is an enterprise the details of which must be studied ere its colossal magnitude can be adequately apprehended.
Perhaps the best light in which such an operation may be read is furnished in Napoleon's elaborate Notes on his intended invasion of Great Britain in 1805, when he proposed to transport an army of one hundred and fifty thousand men in four thousand vessels from Boulogne to the English coast.
As a military operation, there is, of course, no comparison to be made, because the Army of the Potomac had at Fortress Monroe an assured base in advance.
It is simply as a material enterprise that there is a similarity.
These notes are given in the collection of Memoirs dictated to Montholon and Gourgaud (Historical Misc
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, V. Pope Northern VirginiaAugust , 1862
V. Pope's campaign in Northern Virginia. August, 1862.
I. Removal of the army from the Peninsula.
It will have appeared from the exposition of the motives that prompted the change of base, that, in transferring the Army of the Potomac to the James River, the fundamental idea of its commander was to secure a line of operations whereby, with a refreshed and re-enforced army, a new campaign, under more promising auspices, might be undertaken.
The position of the army, at once threatening the communications of Richmond and enabling it to spring on the rear of the Confederate force should it attempt an aggressive movement northward, seemed the most advantageous possible, whether for offensive operations or for insuring the safety of the national capital.
General McClellan brought back to Harrison's Landing between eighty-five thousand and ninety thousand men; and his view was, that all the resources at the command of the Government should be at once forwarded to him. Having the J