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Winslow heard of this, and, without waiting for some of his men and officers who were on shore, he moved out of the harbor. When the commander of the Rappahannock saw the Kearsarge once more off the port of Calais, he knew it was all up and dismantled his ship.
The delay in sending pontoons from Washington to Falmouth, which gave Lee time to concentrate at Fredericksburg, he reasonably argued, was the fault of the military authorities at Washington; but I could easily see that if his supervision of business had been more rigidly systematic, he would have made sure that he was not to be disappointed in his means of crossing the Rappahannock promptly.
When Lee and Jackson found that the Union army on the Rapidan had slipped away from them they felt that they had wasted a great opportunity to strike the retreating force before it reached the Rappahannock, and that, as they followed, the situation of the Confederacy would become most critical.
Few generals have occupied a position so commanding as did Jackson on the morning of August 27. His enemies would henceforward have to dance while he piped. It was Jackson, and not Pope, who was to dictate the movements of the Federal army. It was impossible that the latter could now maintain its position on the Rappahannock, and Lee's strategy had achieved its end.
Trials of the Administration in 1863 Hostility to War Measures Lack of Confidence at the North Opposition in Congress How Lincoln felt about the "Fire in the Rear" Criticisms from Various Quarters Visit of "the Boston Set" The Government on a Tight-rope The Enlistment of Colored Troops Interview between Lincoln and Frederick Douglass Reverses in the Field Changes of Military Leaders From Burnside to Hooker Lincoln's First Meeting with "Fighting Joe" The President's Solicitude His Warning Letter to Hooker His Visit to the Rappahannock Hooker's Self-confidence the "Worst Thing about Him" The Defeat at Chancellorsville The Failure of our Generals "Wanted, a Man."
Jackson joined her husband at his quarters near Fredericksburg, bringing with her the baby-girl he had never seen until then, on April 20, 1863. On the 23d the little one, held in the proud father's arms, was baptized by the regimental chaplain. Nine golden days followed the reunion of the loving family before Hooker crossed the Rappahannock in force.
Hooker reports to Lincoln under date of June 4th that the army or an army is still in his front on the line of the Rappahannock, Lincoln writes to Hooker under date of June 5th, "We have report that Lee's army is moving westward and that a large portion of it is already to the west of the Blue Ridge.
So my heart was warm within me as we pushed on through the dark aisles of the forest. The roads were heavy with mud and melting snow, for the weather had turned warm, and it was not until mid-afternoon that we reached Fredericksburg. We stopped there an hour to feed and wind our horses, and then pressed on to the country seat of Mr. Philip Clayton, below Port Royal, on the Rappahannock.
Burnside had framed his plan of attack on the assumption that Lee's army was dispersed along the Rappahannock. His balloon had reported large Confederate bivouacs below Skinker's Neck, and he appears to have believed that Lee, alarmed by his demonstrations near Port Royal, had posted half his army in that neighbourhood.
Fleetwood takes its place with them twice bloody and memorable. In sight of it took place two of Stuart's hardest combats and both were victories. By sunrise Stuart was pushing rapidly up the bank of the Rappahannock toward Warrenton Springs. Meade had retreated from Culpeper, and was falling back rapidly. Lee was pressing on to cut him off in the vicinity of Auburn.
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