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The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], The enemy at Winchester. (search)
Gen. McClellan. The conservative friends of McClellan cling with great pertinacity to the idea that he is a most wonderful General, and that his reappearance atMcClellan cling with great pertinacity to the idea that he is a most wonderful General, and that his reappearance at the head of the army would change the whole aspect of Federal affairs. We have never been able to see any reason in this McClellan mania. Never did General have aMcClellan mania. Never did General have a nobler opportunity of accomplishing great results, and never did General more signally disappoint the expectations of the world than this same McClellan. He had a McClellan. He had a whole year of preparation before he ventured to attack Richmond, and for the greater part of that year his army quadrupled that of the Confederates. He was not onlygreat General sitting still for a year at the head of such an army as that of McClellan's? And when he did start, what did he accomplish? Magruder held him back witnglorious refuge under the shadow of his gunboats. It will not do to talk of McClellan as a great General. He is "played out" long ago. He is a great braggart and
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
. When after the battle of Antietam General McClellan decided to cross the Potomac, I said to th of November, after this conversation, General McClellan gave an order to Capt. Drum, as Chief En and also a copy of the order retrieving General McClellan from that command. This order was conveters could be satisfactorily arranged with Gen. McClellan, I thought he could command the Army of th had, and knew about their obligations to Gen. McClellan I did. There had been some conversation regard to the removal of General McClellan when he was bringing his army from before Richmond. f War occurred at that time and then offer Gen. McClellan had got back to Washington, and before theone who could do as much with that army as Gen. McClellan could, if matters could be so arranged as ersed with my staff officers I went to see Gen. McClellan himself, and he agreed with them, that thigth of the several corps of the army. Gen. McClellan remained some two or three days to arrange
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Still Later from the North. (search)
t competent to command such an army as this;" that McClellan "could command the Army of the Potomac better than any one who could do as much with that army as Gen. McClellan." It was only on being assured that, as a soldias necessity; in the substitute on of Burnside for McClellan it was choice. The American General was removed wat he felt incompetent to lead so large an army as McClellan's. This is no discredit to Gen. Burnside, but to t are ten to one that he would fail. The genius of McClellan is very like that of Lee, and he is the only man whe acquired the skill to wield vast masses of men. McClellan with his larger experience and greater military knnd men.--There can be no doubt that the removal of McClellan and the substitution of Burnside, in the middle of to by Gen. Halleck. With his usual foresight, Gen. McClellan, on the 6th of November, had dispatched an ordet them. The necessary supplies were withheld from McClellan at Harper's Ferry, at the time that the radical jo