Présentation de l'éditeur
From August 1, 1861, to August 1, 1862. tfywELVE mouths ago, when what remained of the army led by Gen. Mc Dowell to Manassas, had returned to the City of Washington a defeated, routed, disorganised mob ;when a large rebel army lay in front of Washington and could have entered it whenever their leaders saw fit to do so; when it had become evident that Wiufield Scott, the Hero of other djs, was weighed down by old age and no longer able, following the impulse of his patriotic soul, to direct the armies of the United States; when despair and consternation were the order of the day: at that time the President called to Washington George B. Mc Clellan, a volunteer General, who during his campaign in Western Virginia had attracted general attention, as well by the rapid victorious movements of his army as by the modesty but terseness of his reports thereof to the Commander-in-C hief. The President appointed him Major-G eneral of the army of the United States and Commanding General of an army yet to be organized and to be known as the army of the Potomac, to be located in and around the City of Washington. To organize, discipline, arm, drill and subsist an army of infantry, cavalry and artillery of over 100,000 men ;to create all the necessary auxiliaries, the commissarj transportation, ordnance and medical departments ;to get rid of inefl Bcient officers of all grades, to fill their places with better qualified individuals ;to organize an efiective cavalry service; to infuse into every branch of his army the rudiments of military esprit du corps; to impress them with the conviction that their own and their comrades safety depends upon the enforcement of the articles of war and discipline under all circumstances ;to do all this, encumbered with intermeddling State Governors who do not seem to understand that the army of the Potomac is an army of the United States,
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