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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 11: (search)
Chapter 11: The fickle public of the North. Gen. Scott. the clamour for McClellan. his exaltation in the newspapers. the theatrical and sensational mind of the North. advance of the Confederates towards the Potomac. McClellan's desn Parliament. Mr. Gregory's reply. the treaty of Paris and the Federal blockade In the beginning of the war, General Winfield Scott had been entitled in Northern newspapers the Greatest Captain of the Age. After the disaster of Manassas the same newspapers derided him as an imbecile; and in the meanest humiliation General Scott publicly announced himself an old coward for having yielded to popular clamour in fighting the battle, and thus sought by the most infamous confession the mercy oflayed than in its demonstrations towards its public men. Yankee fame has come to be one of the curiosities of the world. Scott was the Greatest Captain of the Age. But McClellan was the Young Napoleon. The name of the new hero appeared on placard