The Story of the Civil War; a Concise Account of the War in the United States of America Between 1861 And 1865 2
The Story of the Civil War; a Concise Account of the War in the United States of America Between 1861 And 1865 2
Ropes, John Codman, 1836-1899
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R.. 27. 28. Digitized by Google 252 THE STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR. [1862 son had hardly 23,000 men,* while the three corps of Sigel, McDowell, and Banks, and the cavalry of Bay- ard and Buford could not have numbered much less than 40,000 men. A battle might well have resulted favorably for Pope. But if he really thought that he was going to encounter an equal force, he cer- tainly ought not to have offered battle. For his rtle was to cover Washington until McClellan should arrive with the Army of... the Potomac, and at this time McClellan had not even begun to withdraw his troops from the Peninsula. When, therefore. Gen- eral Pope says (as he does in his Report ^ that he had determined to fall upon Jackson, and to ^^ com- pel him to fight a battle, which must have been en- tirely decisive for one army or the other," he shows that he utterly misconceived the part which had been assigned to him. Had he suffered, beyond the Rappahannock, an " entirely decisive " defeat, there is no telling how serious might have been the con- sequences to the cause of the Union.
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