General Mcclellan's Peninsula Campaign : Review of the Report of the Committee On the Conduct of the War Relative to the Peninsula Campaign
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The most salient of these indirect attacks are italicised hy tl.e Tribune in his edition of the report. The passages thus made prom- inent are these : '•^ Gen. McGlellan re- mained behind in Yorktown to superin- tend the sending of two divisions up the York River to West FoL?it." "^ * " He" (Gov. Sprague) " testifies that when Gen. McGlellan was told the condition of affairs at the front, here- marked that he had supposed ' those in front could attend to that little matter/"' The report of the ...commit- tee adds: "After some time General McGlellan started from Yorktown, and reached the vicinity of Williamsburg about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. '^ The charges are, then : 1. General McClellan remained behind, &c. The committee mean to imply that he ought to have been in front, facing the danger. 2, Upon being informed of the collision at Williamsburg, he made light of it; and 3. He was slow, when informed there was trouble in front, in giving relief. ;■ 1. General McClellan, instead of going himself in pursuit of the re- treating enemy, sent several of his corps commanders, men of high mili- tary reputation, aud of experience, while he remained at Yorktown to dispatch a body of troops by water to intercept the retreat ol the enemy, by getting between him and Richmond.
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