...nglish's and Melville's deal with the later events of McClellan's first campaign. Lincoln's call for new troops gave rise to the sentimental but immensely effective by James Sloan Gibbons and to Bret Harte 's (sometimes called ), which is said to have played a large part in holding California loyal. The advance of Lee to Antietam, his repulse there, and his retreat found a record in Whittier's , Melv...