Word: warwicke
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...eighty thousand men. These estimates include all three branches of the service, and are approximately correct. McClellan had taken months to organize and discipline his men, and at the very beginning of the campaign he spent several weeks in building works in front of the Confederate entrenchments on the Warwick line near York-town, only to find that when everything was in readiness to open fire, the enemy had evacuated their position. A slow pursuit was at once begun, the rate of advance averaging two miles a day. Slowly the army of the Potomac crept forward until it assumed...