George Brinton Mcclellan From Cadet to Major General a Biography
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The operations on the Peninsula were, by order of the President, confined to two army corps — about fifty thousand men — until the rebel batteries should be removed from the margin of the lower Potomac, At a council composed of the corps commanders appointed by the President, it was agreed that Fort- ADDRESS TO THE AKMT. 271 ress Monroe should be the base of operations, and unanimously regarded 'as necessary that the entire four corps should be employed, with kt least ten thousand men drawn fro...m the forces in the vicinity of the fortress. There was still much difficulty in obtaining arms, and notwithstanding the utmost exertions of tho mili- tary authorities, some of the finest regiments re- quired for the campaign remained without rifles. When the troops were busily preparing to enter upon their campaign McClellan issued an address, dated March 14th, in which he told them their inac- tion had been necessary to allow time for equipping and instructing them, and that other armies had had to move and accomplish important results, in order that they might the better giv« the death-blow to the rebellion.
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