Identifier: campaignsofarmyo01swin (find matches)
Title: Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac;
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Swinton, William, 1833-1892
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Army of the Potomac. (from old catalog) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
e on the 17th ofMarch. It was followed by Porters division on the 22d, andthe other divisions took their departure as rapidly astransports could be supplied. General McClellan reachedFortress Monroe on the 2d of April, and by that time therehad arrived five divisions of infantry, three regiments ofcavalry, the artillery division, and artillery reserve—makingin all fifty-eight thousand men and one hundred guns. Thisforce was at once put in motion in the direction of York-town, in front of which the remainder of the army joined asit arrived. The region known as the Peninsula, on which the armythus found itseK planted, is an isthmus formed by the Yorkand the James rivers, which rising in the heart of Virginia,and running in a southeasterly direction, empty into Chesa-peake Bay. It is from seven to fifteen miles wide and fiftymiles long. The country is low and flat, in some placesmarshy, and generally wooded. The York Eiver is formedby the confluence of the Mattapony and Pamunkey, which
Text Appearing After Image:
THE PENmSULAK CAMPAIGN. 101 unite at West Point. Kiclimond, the objective of tlie opera-tions of the Army of the Potomac, is on the left bank of theJames, at the head of navigation, and by land is distantseventy-five miles fi-om Fortress Monroe. From Fortress Monroe the advance was made in twocolumns—General Keyes with the Fourth Corps (divisions ofCouch and Smith) formed the left; and General Heintzelmanwith the Third Corps (divisions of Fitz-John Porter andHamilton, with Averills cavalry) and Sedgwicks division ofthe Second Corps, the right. At the very outset the roadswere found nearly impracticable, the season being unusuallywet. No resistance of moment was met on the march ; buton the afternoon of the 5th of April the advance of each

Note About Images