Upon receiving Lee's "Lost Order", Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, leading the Union Army of the Potomac, would exclaim "Here is a ...
Frederick, Maryland. But Union General George B. McClellan was slow to act, and the advantage the intelligence provided was lost.
Armed with the information in Orders 191, McClellan set his own
... Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee on about September 9, 1862, during the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War. A lost copy of this order was ...
It pitted Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac and was the
received a copy of the order from his own immediate commander—General Thomas
That piece of paper was a copy of Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. ... which disclosed the Army of Northern Virginia's dispositions in Maryland.
George B. McClellan received a lost copy of Robert E. Lee's Special Order No. 191, which detailed the Confederate plan of action in Maryland. This included the ...
Robert E. Lee's detailed battle plans discovered by Union troops under a
McClellan accidentally found a copy of Lee's orders to his subordinate ...