The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

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had been sent, and five thousand*seven hundred still
remained. On the 9th, General Halleck telegraphed
McClellan that the enemy was massing his forces in front
of General Pope and Burnside to crush them and move
upon Washington, and that re-enforcements must at once
be sent to Aquia Creek; to which he replied that he
would "move the whole army as soon as the sick were
disposed of." On the 12th, in reply to the most pressing
orders for immediate dispatch from General Halleck, who
urged that Burnside had moved thirteen thousand troops
in two days to Aquia Creek, General McClellan said if
Washington was in danger, that army could scarcely
arrive in time to save it. On the 14th, he announced
that the movement had commenced; on the 17th, he said
he "should not feel entirely secure until he had the
whole army beyond the Chickahominy, but that he
would then begin to forward troops by water as fast as
transportation would permit." On the 23d, General
Franklin's Corps started from Fortress Monroe; General
McClellan followed the next day, and reached Aquia
Creek on the 24th, and Alexandria on the evening of the
26th of August.
On the 27th of June the President had issued an order
consolidating into one army, to be called the Army of
Virginia, the forces under Major-Generals Fremont,
Banks, and McDowell. The command of this army was
assigned to Major-General John Pope; and the army was
divided into three corps, of which the first was assigned
to Fremont, the second to Banks, and the third to McDowell. Upon receiving this order, Major-General Fremont applied to be relieved from the command which it
assigned him, on the ground that by the appointment of
General Pope to the chief command, his (Fremont's)
position was " subordinate and inferior to that heretofore
held by him, and to remain in the subordinate rank now
assigned him would largely reduce his rank and consideration in the service." In compliance with his request,
General Fremont was at once relieved.
On the 27th of August, General McClellan was ordered