But Union General George B. McClellan was slow to act, and the advantage the ...
McClellan halted Lee's invasion into the North, but did not pursue the Confederates. The ramification of the loss and find of the "Lost Order," ...
McClellan stopped Lee's invasion at the subsequent Battle of Antietam, but many military historians believe he failed to fully exploit the strategic ...
Upon receiving Lee's "Lost Order", Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, leading the Union Army of the Potomac, would exclaim "Here is a paper with which, if I cannot ...
McClellan's drive toward south mountain compelled Lee to withdraw his invasion force from the Pennsylvania line. “The case [of finding Lee's orders] called for ...
Due to a mix-up of orders, the Confederate infantry abandoned the position, leaving a large gap in the center of Lee's line. McClellan witnessed all this from ...
I now allude to the finding of the order of Gen Lee's order to his Corps commander and which information determined Genl McClellan's subsequent movements.
... “The Finding of Lee's Lost Order,” in “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,” Vol. 2; D.H. Hill to McClellan, April 17, 1869, George B. McClellan ...
16 The stage was set for McClellan's serendipitous finding of the Lost Order the next day, 13 September. Lee's Intelligence Sources and Stuart's Cavalry. Lee, like ...
Having rebutted Pollard's charge of negligence in the losing of Lee's order, Hill's article went on to explain how McClellan's finding of the order induced him to ...