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MONDAY. JULY 30, 1962
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Federal Troops Quit Peninsula
-RICHMOND
CAMPAIGN ENDED On Aug. 3, 18fi2,
Gen. Halleck sent ihe word to Gen. Mc
Clcllan: "... it is determined to withdraw
your Army frcrn the Peninsula . . ." Mc
Clellan asked that the order by rescinded,
but this was not to be. The peninsular cam
paign, which he started on March 17, was
ended. The Army of the Potomac had fought
nine major battles from Yorktown lo Mal
vern Hill and inflicted more than 27,000
causaltics on the Confederates. Despite this,
they were tetreating. They had moved up
the peninsula to the doors of Richmond, but
the doors had never opened. The long march
back down the peninsula was now over. The
map shows McClellan and his army's route
up and down the Tidewater Peninsula. (UP1)
By MERTON T. AKERS
UPI Correspondent
General Halleck scnl the
bad news to Genera! McClel
lan at 7.45 pm. Avig. 3, 18ti2.
could hold his army where it from the Peninsula.)
was as a constant menace to i From Fredericksburg Burn- ! sidp'j
outer (County) that the force called out of a court martial I The spies said only Pope's
at Fredericksburg, if it be j ,0 Bf' the news from spiel vanguard had arrived at Cul
I Pope's, would in all probabil- !hat Pope was concentrating j peper. If Jackson moved fast
lily follow. But if it be Burn- ( "'l.? r"y JL.PTr' .V" i "ht "suppress " Pope a
about 35 miles SOlllhuPst nf I.pp hart HirrtnH
and Pooe in vour front I M..r......, .u r- u-. i ;.
Richmond; he could advance , side could move in any one is strong enough ,o resist .ZA cnd . ,..V.d " the nd.A r'"8
against the Confederate capi- of three directions - west to
Little Mac" - Maj. Gen. tal by two routes, one direct- j join Pope, south toward Rich
ly along the north bank of the 1 mono and MCLiellan or south
James or he could cross the ! west to cut the Virginia Con
river and hit Richmond via J tral railroad, Jackson's corn
Petersburg at the backdoor; j munications with Lee.
or his army could be pulled Dilemma Revealed
back to campaign from the ! Lee revealed his dilemma
north with Pope. ' in a letter to Jackson dated
Lee. who had pulled down ; August 7.
his army before Richmond to j "At preterit it seems to me,"
I a bo ii t 56,000 men by sending j Lee wrote lo his lieutenant,
! first Stonewall Jackson's com- i "too hazardous to diminish
! manri and later A. P. Hill's ; the forces here (on the Penin-
George Bnnton McClellan
got the telegram from ' Old
Brains'' Maj. Gen. Henry
Wager Halleck, commander of
all the Union armies - early
the next day.
The key sentences of the
message read:
"It is determined to with
draw your army from the
Peninsula to Aquia Creek.
You will take immediate
measures to effect this, cov-
division to watch Pope, was
cring the movement the best : caught between the two fires
of McL-lcIlan and Pope.
But Lee did glimpse a sin
gle ray of hope in the report
of Capt. John S. Mosby, a
Confederate officer who bad
been captured, taken to Fort
Monroe and then exchanged.
Mosby reported that the
Union corps of Maj. Gen. Am
brose Burnside had been
sent from the Peninsula to
Aquia Creek with Fredericks
burg. Va., on the Rappahan
nock river its ultimate destin
ation. (This mighl he. Lee reason
ed the first move of a retreat
Kneephobia Developed
West Lauds Designers' Decision
To Bring Hemline of Skirts Down
By DICK WEST I their knees will begin staring
Washington - IL'PII - Accord-1 at me and will continue to do
Ing to recent dispatches from s0 or lne rest 0f the evening.
I can turn my head, or
IMA
Paris, the czars of the fashion
fwjt' ?iti world have
""M decreed a re-
f? turn to some-
. Jk what 1 0 w e r
'-i' hemlines this
i fj fall. To this I
x - A -H sa.v "p raise
V& the Lord and
wwwVti Pass the Moth-
1 U ii h h n rrls "
Under pres.
west e n t condi
tions, it seems to be constitu
tionally impossible for a seat
ed woman to keep her knees
covered, assuming that her
knees are located in the usual
place.
Most ostcogenists agree that
the usual place for a knee is
somewhere between the thigh
and the shinbnne.
I am one male, and 1 II wa
ger there are millions of oth
ers, who is exceedingly tired
of having female knees stare
at me everywhere I go.
Some women seem lo get
the impression that 1 am star
ing at their knees. This is not
true. Their knees are staring
t me,
II is a hard thing to ex
plain, particularly lo your
wife, but I would swear to
il in court. Knees do not
need eyes in order to stare
at you. They fix you with a
blank stare, which is the
worst kind.
Suppose, for example, that
I am at a cocktail party and
1 hat several women are
seated about the room. Even
before 1 finish my first drink,
avert my. eyes, but it does no
It is like trying to refrain
from eating salted peanuts
when there is a bowl of them
at your elbow.
I have spent so much time
trying to overlook kneecaps
good. I know that the knees ; that it is beginning to get on
are sun mere, sieaany star- my nerves. I have developed
ing up at me. U sorl 0f kneephobia. It's get-
This sort of thing makes a j ting so I can't even bear the
person extremely uncomfort- sight of my own knees.
able. II is almost impossible
to ignore knees. There is a
compulsion to stare back at
them.
If a lady accidentally ex
poses her knees, a gentle
man naturally will look the
other way. But when there
is a room full of knees in
view, there is no other way
lo look.
That is why I welcome the
news from Paris. Down with
the hemlines, couturicres, and
please do'n't stop at an inch
or two!
It seems to me that the logi
cal place for hemlines is
about halfway down the tibia.
If they were dropped any
lower than that, I might get
a complex about ankles.
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He's doing guard duty to
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Help for ih Blind
Many blind people will find
great help in a Puhlic Affairs
pamphlet No. 295 "Blindness
- Ability, not
Disability" by
Maxine Wood.
The Public
Affairs people
are at 22 East
38th St., New
York IB. N.Y.
As Miss Wood
says, there are
thousands
Aivam of blind men
and women who work .side by
side with the sighted, partly
or largely because they got
help when they lost their
sight. They got inspiration
and training, and Irarncd to
do work that would he paid
for. Today many blind men
are supporting a family, just
as they used to do.
It is estimated that there
are 350.0110 blind people in
this country, over 50 per cent
of whom are fi5 years or old
er. About 29.000 people lose
their sight each year.
The common definilion of
blindness in this country is a
visual acuity of 20 200 or
less in the better rye. with
correcting glasses. What this
means is that a man is legally
blind if he can identify at on
ly 20 feet a person who. with
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Kmerltua Professor nf
Mayo clinic
(Register and Trthunt Syndicate.
1162)
around them, and then good
hcar'ng becomes of great im
portance. When a person goes blind,
he is likely to react emotion
ally much as he has always
reacted before. If he always
enjoyed being dependent on
people, then he is likely lo be
come more dependent after
he is blind, but if he former
ly liked to be independent
and to earn his own living,
then that is what he tries to
do after he goes blind.
There are a number of sys
temic diseases which can
cause hlindness, such as dia
betes. In cases of diabetes,
blindness can be due either to
inilirv to the seeinp nirm.
brane nf the hack of the eve, ! also of defeating the North-
(retina) or it can be due to a
"frosting"' of the lens - called
a cataract, or it can lie due to
arteriosclerosis
Three per cent of the blind
people in the United States
Uist their sight through indus
trial acridrnis. many of which
could have been avoided by
the wearing of goggles in
shops
People should know that
t h e American Foundation
you can, '
McClellan reacted charac
teristically in a telegram of
600 words.
The order "has caused me
the greatest pain 1 ever ex
perienced." McClellan wired,
"for I am convinced that the
order to withdraw this Army
(of the Potomac) to Aquia
Creek (on the Potomac below
Washington) will prove disas
trous to our cause. 1 fear il
will be a fatal blow ..."
Pointing out that his army i
lay within 25 miles of Rich- j
mond, "the heart of the rebel- j
lion," McClellan continued: '
"Here is the true defense of
Washington; it is here, on the
banks of the James, that the
fate of the Union should be
decided.
' 1 entreat that this order
may be rescinded."
Forces Divided
Halleck. acting on orders
from President Lincoln, re
plied first by telegram and
then by leller.
"I must take things as 1
find them," he wrote. "I find
the forces divided, and I wish
(o reunite them ..."
"The order will not be re
scinded and you will be ex
pected to execute it with all
possible promptness."
McClellan obeyed the or
der - as fast as possible, he.
said; as slowly as possible, his
enemies said.
That ended the Peninsular
campaign on which McClel
lan had set out on March 17
with high hopes of capturing
Richmond.
Bclween May 1 and July 1.
the 100,000-man Army of (he
Potomac had lought nine ma
jor battles from Yorktown to
Malvern Hill. It had inflicted
27.038 battle casualties on Ihe
Confederates and it had suf
fered 23,119 battle casualties
of its own. Despite that, Ihe
Army of the Potomac was re
treating, its mission of break
ing the back of the southern
rebellion unaccomplished.
Opportunity Missed
McClellan had missed the
first of two golden opportun
ities he would have to win
the Civil War in the Easl. He
suspected that even his posi
tion as commander of the
'Vrmy of the Potomac was in
danger, as indeed it was. His
political enemies in Washing
ton were pressuring Lincoln
to remove him. He also feared
he would lose his army, and
that it would he sent piece
meal to reinforce Maj. Gen.
John Pope's new Army of Vir
ginia. McClellan wrote prophetic
ally to his W'ifc;
"They are committing a fa
tal error in withdrawing me
from here, and the future will
show it. I think the result of
their machination will be
(hat Pope will be badly
thrashed wlhin ten days, and
they will be very glad to turn
over the redemption of their
affairs lo me."
All this moving of Union
troops disturbed Confederate
Gen. Robert E. Lee, com
mander of the Army of North
ern Virginia and charged
with Ihe responsibility of not
nnlv defending Richmond but
sula), until something more
is ascertained. I therefore
cannot promise to send you
the reinforcements 1 intended
and slill desire. As the expec
tation of reinforcements may
delay your operations and
otherwise embarrass you ai.d
prevent your making an ad
vantageous movement you
had better not calculate on
them. If I can send them I
will. If 1 cannot and you think
it proper and advantageous
act without them. Being on
the spol you must determine
what force to operate against.
"1 agree with you in believ
ing if you advance into Fau-
you, it might operate injur
iously on your rear, also to
the railroad, your communica
tions, etc.
"If you were strong enough
to bear down all opposition in
your front the force at Fred
ericksburg might be neglect
ed, for it would be sure to
fall if that in your front was
suppressed. It was to save you
the abundance of hard fight
ing that I ventured to suggest
for your consideration not to
attack t h e enemy's strong
points, but to turn his posi
tiono at Warrenton, etc., so as
to draw him out of them. I
would rather you should have
easy fighting and heavy vic
tories. Decision Aiked
"I must now leave the mat
ter to your reflection and
good judgement. Make up
your mind what is best to be
done under all circumstances
which surround us and let
me hear the result at which
you arrive."
Before Lee's letter had nr
rived, Jackson already had
made up his mind. He was
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2S22 TO
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land circulalinc librarv of
pamphlets and books relating
! tn blindness. Its address is 15
i West 16th St.. New York 11.
normal vision, he should roc- ; y. There are records for the
opnize at 200 feet. Or. his blind which can he nhivrd on
fied of vision is so rcMriclrd
that he can see only a small
area at a time.
There are a numnr of
special seeing devices for peo
ple who are close to blind
ness. Some of them are like
little telescopes. In 1958. Ihe
Federal Government aw.jr'ind
grants to six organizations for
optical aid clinscs to help peo-
pie with low visual acuity.
No Sixth Sens
Miss Wood said that it is
j not true that the blind have
'a sixth sense or that they
have an unusually acute hear
' ing. or that they can tell cnl
, or by touch. It is true that the
; blind person (Oin Ret much in
formation through touch that
he used to cet through vision,
i He learns ft lot by listening to
1 things which a man with good
year. Over 4.000 blind per
sons are employed in special
shops, making objects which
then sro sold.
Once, while in Los Angeles,
I went through a four-sturv
factory-hmlritne in which
there were several hundred
blind people Some were
using power sewing machines. ,
and a few were making
ern armies in the r-asi wnrr
evrr they were.
McClellan's army on the
.Tames posed three threats: he
OSU Selected for
Earthquake Network
r'nivallis HTIi - Oregon
Slale University said today it
has been selected to become
for the Blind has a reference ! pnrt of a world-wide network
of earthquake .ecording .sta
tions. James II. Jensen. OSU pres
ident, said $20.01)0 worth of
new scismographic criuipmen'
has been installed a) the uni
versMy Orcein Slate will he nnr nf
four stations on the pacific
Const of the United Slates and
one nf 125 slations m the
world, Jensen said.
The Advancer! Research
Protecls Agencv of ih T-
any machine which has a
speed of M 1 .1 rpm.
In 103fi Congress passed an ;
ae( which authorized blind ,
persons to operate small vend- j
ing stands on Federal proper
ly, like Post Offices and Cus- j
torn Houses. Each nf these op-
erators earns about S.'USO a ! partment of Defence provided
the funds for the new equip
ment.
some blind people with
month'y grants
Wp a! knnw thai gnnd eye
sight is a hlcsMng. and wp
should do cvrryihing possible
to protect our v is ion If you
would like the booklet, " How
bronrns and baskets Some To Safe guard Youi Vision,'
were using typewriters
Dr Howard A, Husk, a re
habiiitaior. said a while ago
vision does not notice. In or- that the greatest problem to-
der to get by. the blind have risy in helping the blind 's to
to keep rarefnU track of get more teachers trained
'everything that ii going on, The Governmrnt helps
by Dr. Alvarez, send 25 cents
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