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Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army., Strategy. (search)
n five days march. From Fort Monroe to Richmond the distance is only 75 miles. AI advances, fighting for every step of ground, and arrives, after innumerable difficulties and great losses, at Williamsburg, pushing the Army BI before it. Bi has orders to avoid a battle in open field, but to defend with the greatest obstinacy the different works which have been erected to oppose the advance of AI; it has to retreat without exposing itself to any heavy loss. From Williamsburg it proceeds to Kent, and, arrived there, it retreats to King William instead of Richmond. BI masks its movement by leaving its rear guard in the presence of AI; this rear guard has to await an attack of the advanced guard of AI, and then to retreat on the railway line to Richmond, where it joins the reserve Army BII, which is already in a position covered by strong field works at Tunstal. The object of the rear-guard attack is only to deceive the enemy about the direction the main body has followed, and to d