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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg. (search)
cClellan ordered them to be expelled from the army, he showed his miserable jealousy of a genius for Monochasium superior even to his own. To find his most mendacious reports transcended by the exaggerations of a newspaper letter was more than he could bear.--Thus, for example, when he declared that if the battle of Chickahominy had begun two hours earlier he would have been in Richmond by night, he might naturally have felicitated himself upon the production of a lie which the invention of Gulliver would despair of rivalling. And yet, scarcely had he time to flatter himself upon this unapproachable achievement, before a letter appeared in one of the Northern newspapers, in which the writer declared that the rebel troops were actually chased into Richmond at the point of the bayonet! How McClellan must have blushed and sickened at seeing himself thus beaten at the only weapons by which he has distinguished himself during this whole war! Why had he never thought of rounding off his d