Excerpt from The Peninsular Campaign and Its Antecedents, as Developed by the Report of Maj. Gen. Geo. B. McClellan and Other Published Documents The year of our Lord, 1863, Opened upon'the darkest. Period in the history of the momentous struggle in which we are yet engaged. The Army of the Potomac, which had gone forth in April of the previous year, at a period when victory had recently everywhere favored our banners, and it seemed left only to give one vigorous blow, to quell forever th??? rebellion, had been ...
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Excerpt from The Peninsular Campaign and Its Antecedents, as Developed by the Report of Maj. Gen. Geo. B. McClellan and Other Published Documents The year of our Lord, 1863, Opened upon'the darkest. Period in the history of the momentous struggle in which we are yet engaged. The Army of the Potomac, which had gone forth in April of the previous year, at a period when victory had recently everywhere favored our banners, and it seemed left only to give one vigorous blow, to quell forever th??? rebellion, had been disastrously driven from Richmond, and called back to Washington, to arrive barely in time to save that city from the grasp of an enemy resuscitated in strength, and with a re. Newed audacity, assuming everywhere a vigora ous offensive action. In the West the course of things had but too faithfully followed the re verses of the East. The renewed hope which followed the {repulse of the rebfil armies from Maryland had been darkened by the long delays which ensued, and the subsequent disastrous failure at Fredericksburg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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