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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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and and naval, withtheir respective commanders, obey existing ordersfor the time, and be ready to obey additional orderswhen duly given; that the heads of departments,and especially the Secretaries of War and of theNavy, with all their subordinates, and the General-in-Chief, with all other commanders and subordi-Lorde? nates of land aud naval forces, will severally be i862auw.R. held to their strict and full responsibilities for Vol. V., . p-4i. prompt execution of this order. Four days later, as a necessary result of this gen-eral summons to action, a special instruction, called Presidents Special War Order, No 1, was issuedto General McClellan, commanding that all thedisposable force of the Army of the Potomac, afterproviding safely for the defense of Washington, beformed into an expedition for the immediate objectxbi^ of seizing and occupying a point upon the railroadJii86231 southwestward of what is known as Manassasv., ii. 4i° Junction, all details to be in the discretion of the
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Jt?.. t%^u^ PLANS OF CAMPAIGN 161 Commander-in-Chief, and the expedition to move chap. ix.before or on the 22d day of February next. This im.is the Presidents suggestion of December 1, putat last in the form of a command. It would not have been characteristic of GeneralMcClellan to accept such an order as final, nor ofMr. Lincoln to refuse to listen to his objectionsand to a full statement of his own views. ThePresident even went so far as to give him, in thefollowing note, dated February 3, a schedule ofpoints on which he might base his objections anddevelop his views. My dear Sir : You and I have distinct and differentplans for a movement of the Army of the Potomac —yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahan-nock to Urbana, and across land to the terminus of therailroad on the York River; mine to move directly to apoint on the railroads southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the follow-ing questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours: First. D

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