He's got the Richmond press wondering what he's up to
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch April 10, 1862:
Yorktown.
There is yet nothing from Yorktown indicating an immediate fight. The enemy, now believed to be under McClellan, had, instead of attacking, after sending a few shot at long range, commenced throwing up breastworks! It was supposed that an invading army, whose duty it was to obey the last mandate from Washington, to crush rebellion in ninety days, would have marched boldly on to attack our forces, which were so much inferior in numbers to his own; but like an elephant at a bridge, however rapidly he may have approached it, he pauses to see whether it be safe to go further! May-be he will not cross it at all, and then all the goads of the keepers of the animals can’t make him venture upon it.
In this position of matters at Yorktown, it is not plain what the enemy is after and how long he will remain stationary. He may be forced to do yet what he has no intention of doing. Of one thing he may rest assured, and that is, that our cause at Yorktown will be maintained by as brave and determined an army of patriots as ever shouldered a gun.
Yorktown view in 1862
An elephant in the camp?
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In the Grasp?
A northern view of the Yankee war machine taking it to the rebels all over the place (from Harper’s Weekly April 5, 1862):
The Hand Closing
