Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States

CHAPTER XII.

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THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN.

President’s War Order--Reason for the Same--Results in West and South-west--Army of the Potomac--Presidential Orders-- Letter to McClellan--Order for Army Corps--The Issue of the Campaign--Unfortunate Circumstances--President’s Speech at Union Meeting--Comments--Operations in Virginia and Maryland--In the West and South-west 181