This may refer to the Second Battle of Bull Run (August '62).
Halleck wanted McClellan to join forces with John Pope; together they would then be strong enough to destroy Lee's army.
Lee moved too quickly to allow the two armies to meet, and he drove John Pope off in disgrace.
General Hallecks chief problem with Union operations and strategies in June of 1862 are perhaps one reason later on that US President Lincoln had to change his own ideas on conducting the war. The fact is that in early June of 1862, Halleck had no strategy at all.
In late October of 1862, Major General William Rosencrans took over the Army of the Cumberland from General Don Carlos Buell. Hallecks instructions to Rosencrans were the following:* Apply pressure on the Confederate Army of Tennessee and force it out of Kentucky; * Cover Nashville and repair the railroad to permit the movement of supples between Nashville and Louisville, Kentucky; and * Maintain pressure on the Army of Tennessee to prevent it from moving West to hinder the operations of General US Grant.
US President Lincoln summoned General Henry Halleck to Washington DC to appoint him to the vacant position of general in chief. Lincoln had sought the advice of both Winfield Scott and Dennis Hart Mahan before making the announcement. It seemed only a fitting reward for Hallecks successful operations in the Western Theater.
The Federal Army of the Potomac was led by Major General George McClellan in the Autumn of 1862, and would be replaced later that Fall, in November, by Major General Ambrose E. Burnside. The change in military leadership was a surprise to many people in the North who supported General McClellan. President Lincoln waited until the off-year elections of 1862 were finished before he relieved McClellan. Playing politics with top generals such as Burnside and McClellan were not in the Union's best interests.
It was the alternative to McClellan's strategy of advancing up the Peninsula, which had failed once, and would probably do so again. Haleck wanted McClellan to advance from Washington into the Shenandoah, and join forces with John Pope, with enough combined muscle to knock out Lee. This might have worked, but Lee didn't give them time to regroup.
General Hallecks chief problem with Union operations and strategies in June of 1862 are perhaps one reason later on that US President Lincoln had to change his own ideas on conducting the war. The fact is that in early June of 1862, Halleck had no strategy at all.
In late October of 1862, Major General William Rosencrans took over the Army of the Cumberland from General Don Carlos Buell. Hallecks instructions to Rosencrans were the following:* Apply pressure on the Confederate Army of Tennessee and force it out of Kentucky; * Cover Nashville and repair the railroad to permit the movement of supples between Nashville and Louisville, Kentucky; and * Maintain pressure on the Army of Tennessee to prevent it from moving West to hinder the operations of General US Grant.
US President Lincoln summoned General Henry Halleck to Washington DC to appoint him to the vacant position of general in chief. Lincoln had sought the advice of both Winfield Scott and Dennis Hart Mahan before making the announcement. It seemed only a fitting reward for Hallecks successful operations in the Western Theater.
The Federal Army of the Potomac was led by Major General George McClellan in the Autumn of 1862, and would be replaced later that Fall, in November, by Major General Ambrose E. Burnside. The change in military leadership was a surprise to many people in the North who supported General McClellan. President Lincoln waited until the off-year elections of 1862 were finished before he relieved McClellan. Playing politics with top generals such as Burnside and McClellan were not in the Union's best interests.
It was the alternative to McClellan's strategy of advancing up the Peninsula, which had failed once, and would probably do so again. Haleck wanted McClellan to advance from Washington into the Shenandoah, and join forces with John Pope, with enough combined muscle to knock out Lee. This might have worked, but Lee didn't give them time to regroup.
Major General John Pope commanded the Federal Army of Virginia at the Second Battle of Manassas August 28-30, 1862.
Major General Irvin McDowell actually had two stints as commander of the Union Army. The first was from March 13, 1862 until April 4, 1862. The second was from June 26, 1862 _ September 5, 1862.
CSS General Beauregard was created in 1862-04.
Summer of 1862
Stanton was was federal. He served as the Union's Secretary of War from 1862 to the end of the War.
General Albert Sydney Johnston ordered the concentration of his forces near Corinth in mid-February 1862, two days after the fall of Nashville. The concentration was carried out on March 25, 1862. All Confederate forces were reorganized in the Army of the Mississippi (Conf.), as follows: Vice-Commander - General Beauregard I Corps - Divisions Clark and Cheatham under General Leonidas Polk; II Corps - Divisions Ruggles and Whiters under General Braxton Bragg; III Corps - Division Hardee under General William Hardee; Reserve Corps - Division Breckenridge under General John Breckenridge, for a total of about 45,000 men and 114 guns. Johnston's army managed to reach the battle site on April 5, 1862, virtually undetected by Grant's.
Richard Griffith - general - died on 1862-06-29.