The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, et cetera . t is not safe to intrust to Major-General McClellan the command of any army of the UnitedStates. And we hold ourselves ready at any time to explainto you in detail the reasons upon which this opinion is based. In spite of this evident sympathy of Lincoln with the in-dignation against McClellan, on September 2 he placed thatgeneral in command of all the troops around Washingto
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, et cetera . t is not safe to intrust to Major-General McClellan the command of any army of the UnitedStates. And we hold ourselves ready at any time to explainto you in detail the reasons upon which this opinion is based. In spite of this evident sympathy of Lincoln with the in-dignation against McClellan, on September 2 he placed thatgeneral in command of all the troops around no act of his ever angered the Secretary of War sothoroughly. A large part of the North, too, was general cry went up to the President for a new leader. Lincoln only showed again in this determined and bitterlycriticised action his courage in acting in a crisis accordingto his own judgment. The army under Pope was demoral-ized. Washington was, perhaps, in danger. The defeat hadrobbed Pope of confidence. Halleck, worn out with fatigueand anxiety, was beseeching McClellan to come to hisrelief. There was no other general in the army who couldso quickly lick the troops into shape, as Lincoln put. tr. =f>.o Pi — S s F- ? J — ^ c 7 ^ S s ^ tx ~ — *- — — >-^ F- ^ --_: ??-^ l- /!: ^ -^ <* - c- * c ^ il . -i ^ •p^ — — - (i -^ ? x:5 t- - - ac <? ;:—- ;i 5 ^- =- C- c .i-f J-= -; ^^ ^ C . ^=J r. S= .5 J ~ ^ ~ z =? - .— 52 ~ LINCOLNS SEARCH FOR A GENERAL 131 it, and man the fortifications around the city. He made theorder, and McClellan entirely justified the Presidents faithin him. He did put the army into form, and was able to fol-low at once after Lee, who was making for Maryland andPennsylvania. Overtaking Lee at Antietam, north of thePotomac, McClellan defeated him on September 17. Butto Lincolns utter despair, he failed to follow up his victoryand allowed Lee to get back south of the Potomac river;nor would he follow him, in spite
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