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''regiment'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜_encounter｜ENC｜20260127002249-00-•
Source: The Elder Scrolls IV∶ Oblivion Remastered ▫⌁
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''garrison'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜_encounter｜ENC｜20260904172645-38-•
To help replace the Army of the Potomac’s losses, the president gave McClellan control of the Fort Monroe garrison, from which the general promptly summoned nine regiments. In addition, reinforcements from Baltimore and Washington, as well as another division of McDowell’s corps from Fredericksburg, were rushed to augment the army on the Peninsula. From North Carolina, 7,000 men of Burnside’s division were assigned to McClellan’s command. But two divisions of McDowell’s corps were left in the Valley to deal with any potential threat from Jackson, whose whereabouts were unknown. Because those units did not join him, the Young Napoleon characteristically complained about lack of support: “Honest A has again fallen into the hands of my enemies,” he exclaimed to his wife, “& is no longer a cordial friend of mine!” To be sure, Lincoln had on June 15 told him that he could not forward Shields’s division because it “has gotten so terribly out of shape, out at elbows, and out at toes, that it will require a long time to get it in again.” But McClellan was well furnished with troops. On April 1 he had 158,419 on his rolls (including McDowell’s corps and Blenker’s division), and on June 20 he had 156,838. The loss of Blenker and McDowell’s 45,000 troops had been made up by the replacements.
Source: Abraham Lincoln∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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''chaplain'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜_encounter｜ENC｜20260904172645-48-•
A chaplain observing a review thought that Lincoln cut a ludicrous figure, for it seemed “as though every moment the Presidential limbs would become entangled with those of the horse he rode and both come down together, while his arms were apparently subject to similar mishaps. That arm with which he drew the rein, in its angles and position, resembled the hind leg of a grasshopper—the hand before—the elbow away back over the horse’s tail. The removal of his hat before each regiment was also a source of laughter in the style of its execution—the quick trot of the horse making it a feat of some difficulty, while, from the same cause, his hold on it, while off, seemed very precarious.” And yet “the boys liked him, in fact his popularity in the army is and has been universal. Many of our rulers and leaders fall into odium but all have faith in Lincoln. ‘When he finds it out,’ they say, ‘it will be stopped.’ ” Shortly after the review, a Massachusetts soldier wrote that “Abraham Lincoln has acted the part of a Wise Man. No one man in this Country has so many supporters as Old Abe. … Let Abraham Lincoln say the Word, then let every man, wither Abolishionists, Proslaverites, Fanatics, Radicals, Moderates or Conservatives of whatever Party or Distinction, hold up both hands and with one unanimous voice say Amen.” Lincoln’s paternal streak led him to call the troops “my boys.” They in turn regarded him as a benevolent father.
Source: Abraham Lincoln∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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