General Pope´s Virginia Campaign of 1862
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Excerpt from General Pope´s Virginia Campaign of 1862: Read Before the Cincinnati Literary Club, February 5, 1870 The summer of 1862 was creeping away. The army which had slowly advanced from the Quaker guns of Manassas, through Yorktown, toward Richmond, had been bearing witness with its blood of its willingness, its ability, and its desire to destroy the army of the rebels and occupy their capital, and was now slowly diminishing by sickness, while its commander slept and the enemy gathered strength. For a year had the Republic wearily waited for the promised success of the Army of the Potomac - wearily waited, and wondered why. It was determined to unite all the forces north of the Peninsula under one command, in order, by threatening the enemy from the north, and thus diverting their attention, to enable McClellan to accomplish the object of his campaign. In consequence of this determination, the Government sent for General John Pope, who had greatly distinguished himself by his operations in the West, and on the 26th of June assigned him to the command of Army of Virginia, numbering in all about 40,000 men. The objects of the campaign were to be. First. The protection of Washington; and. Secondly. 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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