...bing influence which had for some time been perceptible in military operations. This influence, more than Mr. Lincoln's apprehensions, kept up small armies, as Wadsworth's in defense of Washington, Fremont 's toward the Ohio, Banks's and Shields's in the valley, and McDowell's at Fredericksburg — a division of forces that resulted in the defeat of them all, and perhaps, as McClellan claimed, in hi...