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Title: Complete works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901, ed Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint ed Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 Fish, Daniel, 1848-1924
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : Francis D. Tandy Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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espatch to you ofyesterday it appears that he desiresyour views and those of the government as towhether he shall advance upon the enemy. Iam not prepared to order, or even advise, anadvance in this case, wherein I know so little ofparticulars, and wherein he, in the field, thinksthe risk is so great, and the promise of advan-tage so small. And yet the case presents matters for veryserious consideration in another aspect. Thesetwo armies confront each other across a smallriver, substantially midway between the two cap-itals, each defending its own capital, and men-acing the other. General Meade estimates theenemys infantry in front of him at not less than40,000. Suppose we add fifty per cent, to thisfor cavalry, artillery, and extra-duty menstretching as far as Richmond, making the wholeforce of the enemy 60,000. General Meade, as shown by the returns, has Lincoln, McClellan, and Staff, Antietam, 1862 From a Rare Photograph in the Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection, Washington, D. C.
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1863) Letter to Halleck 129 with him, and between him and Washington, ofthe same classes of well men, over 90,000.Neither can bring the whole of his men into abattle; but each can bring as large a percentagein as the other. For a battle, then, GeneralMeade has three men to General Lees two. Yet,it having been determined that choosing groundand standing on the defensive gives so great ad-vantage that the three cannot safely attack thetwo, the three are left simply standing on thedefensive also. If the enemys 60,000 are sufficient to keepour 90,000 away from Richmond, why, by thesame rule, may not 40,000 of ours keep their60,000 away from Washington, leaving us 50,-000 to put to some other use? Having practi-cally come to the mere defensive, it seems to beno economy at all to employ twice as many menfor that object as are needed. With no object,certainly, to mislead myself, I can perceive nofault in this statement, unless we admit we arenot the equal of the enemy, man for man. Ihope you

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