GEN. M’CLELLAN’S ARMY: Everything Quiet, and the Army in Good Spirits; The Enemy Defeated with Terrible Slaughter (7/7/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/7/1862

[Homer_J_Simpson]

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, CAMP HEAR HARRISON'S LANDING, July 4, 1862.

SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC! Your achievements of the last ten days have illustrated the valor and endurance of the American soldier attacked by superior forces and without hope of reinforcements. You have succeeded in changing your base of operations by a flank movement, always regarded as the most hazardous of military expedients. You have saved all your material, all your trains and all your guns except a few lost in battle, taking in return guns and colors from the enemy. Upon your march you have been assailed day after day, with desperate fury, by men of the same race and nation, skillfully massed and led. Under every disadvantage of number, and necessarily of position, also, you have, in every conflict, beaten back your foes with enormous slaughter. Your conduct ranks you among the celebrated armies of history. No one will now question that each of you may always, with pride, say, "I belong to the army of the Potomac."

You have reached the new base, complete in organization and unimpaired in spirit. The enemy may at any time attack you. We are prepared to meet them. I have personally established your lines. Let them come, and we will convert their repulse into a final defeat.

Your Government is strengthening you with the resources of a great people. On this, our Nation's birthday, we declare to our foes, who are rebels against the best interests of mankind, that this army shall enter the Capital of the so-called Confederacy; that our National Constitution shall prevail, and that the Union, which can alone insure internal peace and external security to each State, "must and shall be preserved," cost what it may in time, treasure and blood.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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Gen. M’Clellan’s Army: Advices from Headquarters up to Saturday Night – 2-5
Old Point Correspondence: The Fourth of July at Old Point – 5
The Battles Before Richmond: List of Sick and Wounded on Board the John Brooks, from James River, Going on to Annapolis – 5-8
The Shenandoah Valley: On the Track of Stonewall Jackson – 8-9
A Victory in Mississippi: A Large Body of Rebel Cavalry Defeated Near Booneville – 9
News from Washington: Suspension of the Order Dismissing Gen. Fremont’s Staff – 9
Vicksburgh – 9-10
Editorial: Our Army Before Richmond – Causes of the Recent Reverse – 10
Editorial: The Crisis of the War – Appeal to Radicals and Conservatives – 10-11
Is Washington Safe? – 11
The Valor of Our Officers – 11
Effects of the Heat – 11
Sunday Arrests – 11

[TTFlyer]

McClellan must write for the Daily Mail.

[M Kehoe]

Ref McClellan”s address...

“Well two out of three ain’t bad.” - Meatloaf

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