GEN. M’CLELLAN’S ARMY: Highly Important Movements in Progress; The President Gone Up the James River (7/10/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/10/1862

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The following is from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. We have a corroboration from another source of the information it contains:

"Last evening we learned that President LINCOLN had gone on a visit to the Army of the Potomac, in its new position on the James River, and as he will probably be on his return by the time this reaches our readers, there is no necessity for keeping the fact from the public.

The steamboat Ariel brought Brig.-Gen. ANDREW PORTER and Brig.-Gen. NAGLEE to Washington on Sunday night. Both of them were sick, and Gen. MCCLELLAN thought they would be benefited by the change. Gen. PORTER was intrusted with important dispatches for the War Department. After they were delivered, on Monday morning, the President determined to go to the army, and the Ariel was detailed to convey him. He left on Monday afternoon, and must have reached Harrison's Landing yesterday (Tuesday) forenoon, unless he made a stop at Fortress Monroe. Gen. NAGLEE accompanied him."

OUR ARMY CORRESPONDENCE Hooker's Division in the Late Battles-- Movement from Fair Oaks to the James River--Scenes and Incidents by the Way

FIRST BRIGADE, HOOKER'S DIVISION.
CAMP AT HARRISON'S ESTATE, JAMES RIVER,
Thursday, July 3, 1862.

Yesterday morning this division, having fought their way from Fair Oaks, arrived in camp, during a merciless storm of rain, which continued up to a late hour last night. Wounded men in hundreds thronged the way, and every avenue to the grounds was choked up with troops and wagons, while our discomfort was hightened by the mud into which our wearied forces sank ankle deep at every step. A large wheat field was selected for occupation, and the golden grain was in a few moments trampled under foot, or cut down to form beds for the soldiers.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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Gen. M’Clellan’s Army: Highly Important Movements in Progress – 2-3
The Bombardment of vicksburgh – 3
Editorial: The Intervention Panic – 4
Editorial: Secretary of War – 4-5
Editorial: Ill-Times and Mischievous – 5
Editorial: The Summer Campaign not Ended – 5
Dead or Alive? – 5-6
The Model Hospital in Newark: Wholesale Accommodations for the sick and Wounded – 6

[allendale]

The Penisular campaign solidified Lee’s reputation and ultimately destroyed Mc’Lellan’s career. However the Confederates in these battles and the “victories” that followed suffered losses they could not sustain. The whole war was the definitive American tragedy. Forever changed the American nation.

[Larry Lucido]

Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan. October 3, 1862.

[Larry Lucido]

Pinkerton doesn’t always get his man.

[Al B.]

The whole war was the definitive American tragedy.

Amen.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The bulge in Pinkerton’s breast pocket is his calculations showing there are 400,000 Confederate troops in Richmond. (I think that is General McLernand standing next to Lincoln. Picture taken after Antietam.)

[FarCenter]

The role of steamships in the movement of troops and communications is interesting. It appears that in this campaign they were more important than the railroads and steam locomotives, which are usually thought of in terms of Union logistics.

[Conan the Librarian]

In front of Richmond, Pinkerton wasn’t wrong. He was saying the Confederates had at least 100,000 troops available, and, they did.

McClellan should have ran back to Ft. Monroe ASAP.

[Conan the Librarian]

That’s how Lincoln led the capture of Norfolk. He was in Ft. Monroe, was looking across the river, and, noted there wasn’t anyone visible.

Lincoln ordered troops to go over and take the town, which they did. Just loaded up some steamboats and when across.

The Confederates had abandoned the town earlier, yet, no Union Leader took the time to capture it.

[allendale]

It really was. If it had not been for the deployment of the ironclad Monitor and other ships like it, Union logistics would have been exceedingly compliated.