http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/official-correspondence-%e2%80%93-mcdowell%e2%80%99s-plan/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Tue, 14 May 2013 19:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/official-correspondence-%e2%80%93-mcdowell%e2%80%99s-plan/#comment-18103 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:39:14 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/official-correspondence-%e2%80%93-mcdowell%e2%80%99s-plan/#comment-18103 [...] the force he expected to meet at Manassas (emphasis and brackets mine; you can read the whole thing here): The secession forces at Manassas Junction and its dependencies are supposed to amount at this [...]

]]> http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/official-correspondence-%e2%80%93-mcdowell%e2%80%99s-plan/#comment-15610 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:45:36 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/official-correspondence-%e2%80%93-mcdowell%e2%80%99s-plan/#comment-15610 [...] spell defeat for the Federal forces?”  No, what I’m saying is that McDowell’s plan, while assuming Patterson’s success, did not depend on it; because, as I explained here, the [...]

]]> http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/official-correspondence-%e2%80%93-mcdowell%e2%80%99s-plan/#comment-11269 Fri, 22 May 2009 13:28:53 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/official-correspondence-%e2%80%93-mcdowell%e2%80%99s-plan/#comment-11269 [...] So if McDowell anticipated facing 27,000 or so, his argument holds water.  But as noted in his plan, McDowell estimated the Confederate strength would equal (after reinforcements from all available [...]

]]> http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/official-correspondence-%e2%80%93-mcdowell%e2%80%99s-plan/#comment-2594 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:51:32 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/official-correspondence-%e2%80%93-mcdowell%e2%80%99s-plan/#comment-2594 [...] don’t get me wrong: I think McDowell possessed a good deal of common sense, as demonstrated here in his assessment of the situation in his plans for the advance on Manassas, and later in his [...]

]]> http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/official-correspondence-%e2%80%93-mcdowell%e2%80%99s-plan/#comment-2406 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:06:08 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/official-correspondence-%e2%80%93-mcdowell%e2%80%99s-plan/#comment-2406 [...] Despite conventional wisdom (again), the above is not true with regards to McDowell’s plan.  Patterson’s actions were designed and directed by Scott, not McDowell.  In addition, Melton’s analysis employs some hindsight.  While it was true that McDowell’s force outnumbered that of Beauregard in June, his planconsidered that the Confederacy would forward all available troops exclusive of Johnston to Manassas.  McDowell’s plan can be found in War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (ORs), Series I, Vol. 2, pp 719-721.  In this plan, written about June 24, McDowell uses some sound logic to deduce how many men the Confederacy might muster to face him, and at the same time give the lie to the notion that the rebels would need to rely on intelligence from folks like Rose Greenhow to track the movements of the enemy (see the whole plan here): [...]

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