Brock of Richmond and published as a fundraiser in 1869. It was later collected in The Southern Amaranth, compiled and edited by Sallie A. This poem was first published in The Richmond Whig. McDowell subsequently lost his command, and Scott finally retired from the service on November 1, 1861. Federal visions of an unimpeded march into Richmond and a swift end to the war dissolved on the battlefield when the Union army was routed and sent scurrying back to the Washington defenses on July 21, 1861. ![]() Johnston, and Stonewall Jackson at Manassas. Whatever its relative merits, Scott's plan soon went by the boards when General Irvin McDowell found himself facing Confederate Generals P.G.T. At the age of 75, poor health precluded his taking the field (he was so obese that he could no longer ride a horse but had to be transported by carriage) his mind, however, was still sharp, and he devised an overall plan of military action that would eventually prove to have been strategically sound, despite the fact that it was roundly criticized when it was first unveiled. Made general in chief of the Regular Army in 1841, Scott still held titular command when the War Between the States began. ![]() The first such failure took place under the nominal control of General Winfield Scott, a professional soldier from Virginia who had made his reputation during the War of 1812 and solidified it in the 1846 war against Mexico. ![]() A favorite topic among Southern poets early in the War was the many failed Yankee attempts to take Richmond, the Confederate capital.
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