Identifier: makersofworldshi00nort (find matches)
Title: Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: World history. (from old catalog) Biography
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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respect — if we except the respective commanders-in-chief. The measureof success he met with will always be a justification of his plan. Having thus raised the siege of Richmond, Lees ambition was totransfer the scene of operations to a distance from the Confederatecapital, and thus relieve the depression occasioned in the South by thegeneral retreat of its armies in the West. McClellan lay at HarrisonsLanding, below Richmond, with an army that was still strong, andwhile the Confederate capital was no longer in immediate danger, thewithdrawal of the army defending it would invite attack and capture,unless McCellans withdrawal at the same time could be compelled. For effecting this, General Lee calculated on the excessive anxietyfelt at the North for the safety of Washington. If he could so disposeof his forces as to place Washington in actual or apparent dan-ger, he felt assured that McClellans army would be speedilyrecalled. The series of movements and manoeuvres that followed cul-
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442 STUARTS CAVALRY CUTTING TELEGRAPH WIRES. GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE. 44:1 minated on the morning of August 29, on the same field that the firstbattle of Manassas or Bull Run was fought in 1861. Popes army, rein-forced by McClellans, was in position, and battle was joined in theafternoon. After many determined but unsuccessful assaults uponLees lines, the National army was driven across Bull Run to Centreville.The way now seemed clear to the Southern commander. The espritde corps of his army was at the highest pitch. He felt that he could acton the aggressive and transfer the scene of operations to theenemys territory. The plan involved the practical abandonment of hiscommunications; but the region into which he proposed to march wasrich in food and forage, and with the aid of his actve cavalry underStuart, he trusted to his abilitj to sustain his army upon the Northernterritory. The advance movement was at once inaugurated. THE BATTLE AT ANTIETAM. On September 5, the army, 45,000 stron

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