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Mcclellan's Tactics In Virginia

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Day
25
Month
April
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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If it bc true that uioety thousand men quitted Manassas under the corainand of Gen. Johnston, tl:ere must le upwarda of a bundred thousand availliile tof tho defeneo of thia extended bui a'.iiiost impregnable eerai-circle of intrencbment8. The huls and gap-; of the Bino Ridge - the l)h:ffs and gorgea oi) the southorD-bank of thu Rappidao nr.d Bappubaonock - thu forests that el:irt the roíais nnd leaser sti'eanis - the weü-vvooded hills that ineloso Biebtnopd itself, - make up sueh a vast nat;ira] fortress that General IeC!el!an tnay wal] shrink from direct attack; and prefer relying upon that Fabián poiwy of Btrategera ,nd Wockade whieli hv has so succeSfíulJy adopted, first in Western Virginia and then upon a larger seale. It Ís eonfessed'y a victory to have íoreed tlie Conlodurates to relinquish to hiru so larga a portion of their chitíf Stato, and to ineloso with thiek linos of defenees tbeir capital city - a viotory none the less important in ts moral influenco that it was gained without firing a shot. It may be that he atendí thrbwing tus inmenso army npon thosonthorn coast somewhere below tho field tbna carefully gu arded against his approaeh, and to let tlie Oonfederates eat up tlieir eupplies wbile ho overruoa the country in their rcar.

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Old News
Michigan Argus