armida-like

Updated: July 17, 2026

It seems that Chickahominy exercised an attractive, Armida-like charm on the great strategian. An army loaded with such immense trains would have sufficiently destroyed all the roads, and rendered them impassable for itself; and the flying expedition would at once have been transformed into an expedition sticking in the mud, similar to that subsequent in the peninsula.

count Adam G. De Gurowski - Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862