F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Capitolo 45
not back, in the direction in Richmond, but direct, in the
direction of the north.
Yes, my child, the enemy provocatively marched in Pennsylvania, and it sent
the pacific Dutch in that remote part of the country in a
state of great alarm. And this that I accept as the best test that the
you rebel they were not stricken to Chancellorville. I am sure, also, that
General prostitute was enough right to divide this opinion with me.
He had only always the rebels where him them he/she wanted, and still me
it observed that he didn't succeed in bringing them to a stand before they got on
the ground free in Pennsylvania. Every honest Dutch in the State
it was convinced his/her his/her own mind that General Prostitute, if he had been
the general he should be, you/he/she would have had to drive the enemy in some
remote angle of Virginia, and it held there it.
Still the military atmosphere was full of confusion and the uncertainty.
It is things they seemed to get worse every day. Strange as you/he/she can seem,
the government continued to make wide efforts to favor the
object of the general rebel. Fortunately for the nation, our wise man
rules fully woke up a convinced morning in which that General Protection was
deposit, that he was already free on the ground of a northern State,
with a favorable perspective to make there a setup. The
government suddenly discovered also that General Prostitute, even if a
brave soldier and everybody that, it was not the man to command a great army.
Then the government assuaged him and sent him/it in elegant retirement,
a custom very common to that duration.
Then the government named General Meade to the command of the
great old army of the Potomac. Of this little general had been
known. Anchor, the felt of nation assuaged to the change. Now, General
Meade was a smoothed gentleman a brave and good soldier that had,
fought on the Peninsula under McClellan and it commanded the
Reserves of Pennsylvania. To put a new general in command of an army
to a duration when that army is in face of the enemy and is waited for each