MAY 18, 1862:
U.S. General Henry W. Halleck’s Blue forces have moved 3 miles in ten days
toward Corinth, Mississippi. Gray resistance is nominal. Halleck advises
Headquarters in hopeful tones to the effect that his "whole line moved up yesterday to within 2 miles of enemy’s
works…”
Halleck’s comrade-in-arms
General McClellan doesn’t move at all, according to Dr. Castleman, a diarist in
the Army of the Potomac:
"Orders
from Headquarters. Roll will beat at 5 in the morning. Army will move at
half-past six, precisely." All was bustle. The chests and boxes which had
yesterday been packed for a move, in the morning, Unpacked in the afternoon,
were again packed at night, which showed how eager our soldiers are to get to
work. The roll, at 5 this morning, instead of calling them from their beds,
summoned them to breakfast. They were ready, but had not finished their
hurriedly prepared meal, when it was announced through the camp, "Order of
last night, to move this morning, is countermanded."
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