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Title: The appeal to arms, 1861-1863
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hosmer, James Kendall, 1834- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
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for themost part uninjured. Worden, commander of theMonitor, in his pilot-house at the bow, built ofiron bars log-cabin fashion, received in the face, ashe peered through the interstice, the blinding fireand smoke from a shell that struck within a fewinches, but he escaped death. The casualties onthe Virginia were few. On the morning of thatday both North and South believed that the Con-federacy was about to control the sea. The antici-pation, whether hope or fear, vanished in the smokeof that days battle. With it, too, passed away thetraditional beauty and romance of the old sea-ser-vice : the oak-ribbed and white-winged navies, whosedominion had been so long and picturesque, at lastand forever gave way to steel and steam.* McClellans army, under four corps commanders^—Sumner, Keyes, Heintzelman, and McDowell (as-signments disapproved by McClellan, who wishedto take time in making these important appoint- * Soley, Blockade and Cruisers, 54. 2 War Records, Serial No, 12, pp. 1-1077.
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NEIGlIBOIJirOOD OF RICHMOND i862) PENINSULA CAMPAIGN 131 merits)^ — was despatched down the Potomac inMarch, its speedy transfer, with artillery, horses,and supplies, to the Peninsula being managed bythe navy department with great speed and goodjudgment. April 2, McClellan was with them, andthe march from Hampton Roads began. Unfortu-nately, difficulties soon developed; McClellan count-ed upon the strong co-operation of the navy, butthat branch of the service, at the moment, wasabsorbed by the Virginia, still undestroyed andcapable of harm. The army marched to the neigh-borhood of Yorktown and against the Confederatelines, which the general found formidable; he sup-posed them to be occupied by a body of defendersin comparison with whom his own numbers weresmall. At this point it was found that the president andthe general had misunderstood each other: in theforty thousand men who were to cover Washington,McClellan counted the troops in the ShenandoahValley. This Lincoln thought unsa

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