Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln All Digital Collections Login Home: Search: Browse: Bookbag: Help: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Foreign complications may entirely change the state of affairs, & render very different plans necessary.

``IN THE FIRST CASE, we can fix no definite time for an advance---the roads have gone from bad to worse---nothing like their present condition has ever been known here before---they are impassable at present, we are entirely at the mercyPage  124of the weather. ``These circumstances indicate, or prove, that the enemy anticipate the movement in question & are prepared to resist it. ``An attack on his left flank alone involves a long line of wagon communication & cannot prevent him from collecting for the decisive battle all the detachments now on his extreme right & left.

written by Abraham Lincoln. I believe that the mass of the people have entire confidence in us---I am sure of it---let us then look only to the great result to be accomplished, & disregard everything else. The collected letters, speeches, etc. The expense & difficulty of the movement will thus be much diminished (a saving of transportation of about 10,000 horses! Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission.

``After a successful battle our position would be---Burnside forming our left, Norfolk held securely, our centre connecting Burnside with Buell, both by Raleigh & Lynchburg, Buell in Eastern Tennessee & Northern Alabama, Halleck at Nashville & Memphis. I hope to use the latter number, by bringing fresh troops into Washington, & still leaving it quite safe. ``After the passage of the Occoquan by the main army, this covering force could be drawn in to a more central & less exposed position, say Brimstone Hill or nearer the Occoquan. 5. Refresh and try again. ``In the present state of affairs our columns (for the movement of so large aPage  121 ``It is by no means certain that we can beat them at Manassas. The probability is, from the best information we possess, that he has improved the roads leading to his lines of defense, while we must work as we advance. ``The crossing of the Occoquan should be made at all the fords from Wolf's Run to the mouth, the points of crossing not being necessarily confined to the fords themselves. This point is easily reached by vessels of heavy draught, it is neither occupied nor observed by the enemy; it is but one long march from West Point, the Key of that region, & thence but two marches to Richmond. In that event I will be ready to submit them.'' In case of disaster, would not a safe retreat be more difficult by your plan than by mine? “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. ``So much am I in favor of the southern line of operations, that I would prefer the move from Fort Monroe as a base, as a certain, tho' less brilliant movement than that from Urbana, to an attack upon Manassas. ``Nothing is CERTAIN in war---but all the chances are in favor of this movement. Should it be determined to operate from the lower Chesapeake, the point of landing which promises the most brilliant results is Urbana on the lower Rappahanock. We’d love your help. ``The concentration of the cavalry etc in the lower counties of Maryland can be effected without exciting suspicion, & the movement made without delay from that cause. ), DLC-Stanton Papers. ``If at the expense of 30 days delay we can gain a decisive victory which will probably end the war, it is far cheaper than to gain a battle tomorrow that produces no final results, & may require years of warfare & expenditure to follow up. Volume 5. The next movement would be to connect with Sherman on the left, by reducing Wilmington & Charleston; to advance our centre into South Carolina & Georgia; to push Buell either towards Montgomery, or to unite with the main army in Georgia; to throw Halleck southward to meet the Naval Expedition from New Orleans.

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