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The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Another plan of the campaign. (search)
I have learned from a semi-official source some details of a plan for an attack on Richmond from the West. While at Cincinnati a few days ago, Gen. McClellan held a conference with several omin at Western army officers, at which he presented the following plan, which was enthusiastically approved of and agreed to by all present, namely: to organize, out of the troops now ready for the field in Ohio, Indiana, and the North western States, two columns of 20,000 each, one to rendezvous at Ashland, Ky., and the other at Gallipolis, Ohio, both on the Ohio river, and both accessible by railroads. To march the first column across the western counties of Virginia to the nearest point on the Virginia and Tennessee railroad; probably at Abingdon, and to march the second column along the valley of the Kanawha river, either to Covington or Newborn. The marching distance for either column would not be over one hundred or one hundred and fifty miles, and could easily be accomplished in a we