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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 3 (search)
sary first of all to provide the vast amount of water transportation needful for so colossal an enterprise. Hence the order for a direct movement on Manassas. Upon the receipt of this order, General McClellan lost no time in seeing the President and requesting to know whether this order was to be regarded as final, and whether he could be permitted to submit in writing his objection to the plan of the Executive and his reasons for preferring his own. Permission was accorded, and on the 3d of February the general-in-chief submitted, in a paper to the Secretary of War, an elaborate discussion of the two plans of campaign. Report, pp. 43-48. Whether from the force of reasoning of the paper, or from other and extrinsic considerations, Mr. Raymond, editor of the New York Times, who had the best means of knowing the secrets of the Presidential mind, remarks: The President was by no means convinced by General McClellan's reasoning: but in consequence of his steady resistance and unwil