General H. W. Halleck´s Report Reviewed in the Light of Facts, 1862 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from General H. W. Halleck´s Report Reviewed in the Light of Facts, 1862 Whether the sudden elevation to position and power shook the intellect of the General, or whether jealousy and ambition combined to make him suddenly incapable of correct judgment, or whether he was indeed unable to advise in such terrible circumstances as then environed the army and the capital, it does not fully appear. But it does appear that he staked his military reputation at once against that of General McClellan on the propriety of evacuating the peninsula; and that he lost the stake in the terrible disasters which followed his awful error. The whole of this part of his report therefore is devoted to explaining why it was that he failed to sustain his own judgment, and why the event did sustain the tremendous truths briefly, nobly, and sadly set forth as existing facts, and prophecies certain to be facts, in the letter of General McClellan of the 4th of August. For the report of General Halleck amounts to just this: - "I said the army must leave the peninsula; General McClellan protested and said it would lead to disaster. He was right. But it was not my fault." Let us see if it was not his fault. The final ground on which General Halleck ordered General McClellan to leave the peninsula, is stated in his report to be this - that it was impossible to furnish General McClellan with 35,000 fresh troops required by him as reinforcements. General McClellan believed that if those troops were furnished him Richmond could be taken. But says General Halleck: It was impossible to furnish them. We could give him 20,000. We could not give him 35,000. So we ordered him to evacuate. We pause astounded before the magnitude of this assertion. Impossible! Why, within six weeks from that fourth day of August, General Halleck´s strategy had sacrificed more than thirty-five thousand of our troops along the Virginia roads, on the bloody banks of the Rapidan and Bull Run, on South Mountain and Antietam! Within six weeks from that time, gallant new regiments like the Fourteenth Connecticut, fresh from home, had been more than decimated on the Maryland battle-fields, to save the capital from the disasters which this withdrawal from the peninsula had brought upon it! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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