Identifier: americanconflict02gree (find matches)
Title: The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery
Publisher: Hartford : O.D. Case & Co. Chicago : Geo. & C.W. Sherwood
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Rebel camps in our front;nnd th»-ir testimony convinces me that they havebut fifty or !*ixty regiments in all—certainly notover 50,000 men. This, of course, did not in- clude outlying detachments, whether at andtoward Winchester or below the Occoquan. Most Rebel writers who touch this point, andBritish officers who served with or visited theRebel army during the ensuing campaign, wereunanimous in making their total effective forceduring that Winter less than 50,000. Jan. 30. Pollard says: For tho space of three weeks before tho armyleft its iiitrenehments at Manassas, preparationswere being made for falling back to the line oftlie Rappahannock, by the quiet and gradual le-moval of the vast accumulations of army stores;and, with such consummate address was tliisrnannged, that our own troops had no idea ofwhat was intended until the march was takenup. The first intimation tho enemy had of thoevacuation of Manassas was tlie smoke of thesoldiers huts tliat iiad been fired by our army.
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ADVANCE BY THE PENINSULA DECIDED ON. 113 command of all military departmentsbut that of tlie Potomac ; extendingGen. llallecks department in theWest so as to include all the Missis-sippi Yalley northward of the GulfStates and west of a north and southline drawn through Knoxville, Tenn,;and creating a new Mountain De-partment, consisting of the countrybetween McClellans and llallecks,to be commanded by Gen. Fremont. Undoubtedly, this order indicateda diminution, if not absolute failure,of the Presidents confidence in hissenior General; and, while it is veryobvious that the commander of agreat army operating from the Pen-insula against Kichmond could notproperly and safely direct the move-ments of other armies, scattered allover the country, and with which histelegraphic communications wouldprobably be often interrrupted, it iscertain that all our movementsshould have been directed by a com-mon head, responsible for the properdistribution and concentration of ourforces. A Secretary of W

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