Identifier: civilwarnational00thor (find matches)
Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
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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but the imperious delay in taking any action adverse to thebuilding or launching of the ship has colored the traditionsin America on the conduct of the British government. Thereis no doubt that a strong faction in the government desiredthe success of the Confederacy, The Alabama left portJuly 29th and in due time reached the Azores where shewas supplied with guns and ammunition, brought by twoBritish vessels, about the middle of August. McClellan, now of opinion that the Army of the Potomacwas in a place of safety, asked for fifty thousand more troops,saying that then he would retrieve his fortunes. It is about this time that Lincoln seems to have changedhis opinion abour McClellan. He sent him some twentythousand men but not with hope, apparently, that he washelping the cause by so doing. McClellan told Lincoln,while the president was on a brief visit to his headquarters,that he did not believe the army could be safely removed.Amidst the difficulties of the situation Lincoln sent for
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rHE SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR 277 Halleck and on July nth assigned him to the command ofall the Union armies, with headquarters at Washington. OnAugust 3d Halleck telegraphed him of the decision to re-move the army from the Peninsula to Aquia Creek. Mc-Clellan begged that the order should be rescinded, asserting—and as military critics agree, on sound principles—that the**true defense of Washington was here on the banks of theJames and that here the fate of the Union should be de-cided. But McClellan had done nothing to give greatweight to his opinion on the point and Halleck, refusing torescind the order, added you will be expected to execute itwith all possible promptness. Meanwhile General John A. Pope, called from the Westand assigned to command of an army of 43,000, comprisingthe corps of McDowell, Banks and Sigel, the latter Fre-monts successor, was planning a campaign that should windup with the capture of Richmond and the collapse of theConfederacy. Popes popularity at the No

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