File:A Corps going into battle- possibly General Warren's V Corps at Mine Run LCCN2004660137.jpg

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• Drawing attached to a piece of white lined paper inscribed: The unthinking general is not the one that wins battles. Warren at Mine run by his thoughtfulness and by not blindly attacking according to his orders saved the Army from disaster. Should Meade have relieved him for that. Warrens record shows how well he knew when to move with decision see for instance Bristow [sic] station and the crossing of the N Anna at Jericho. /Warren is a most skilful [sic] soldier and thorough tactician of the class of Wolke & Napier a thinker. These are the men who win battles. Take Chancellorsville the mere Sabeur Sheridan could not have laid out that magnificent strategy only defeated by Hookers incompetence and drunken meddling. Look at his career as Lieut of engineer-explorer as Col. of the 5th N.Y. General of a brigade at Gaines Mill, at Malvern at Manassas at Gettysburg etc. /He did not belong to the wing. He had the misfortune to openly criticize the wicked strategy or want of it by which Grant conducted the Ar. of P. to his gory grave. The 5th Corp seemed fated. Its first commander made it the most efficient in the army (he was a thinking general, and by his thoughtfulness saved it, and the army from utter destruction by lying John Pope. His reward was to by cashiered by a venal court. In 1864 the corps was scattered about the line of communication & elsewhere, as guards, to its entire disorganization, then placed under Genl. Warren because of his known ability to take into the field and bring up to its former efficiency while engaged in an active campaign which almost annihilated it.
• Inscribed on lined paper below image: 43.
• Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.148)
• Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.