The Life of Abraham Lincoln

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McClellan had under his command, at Washington and its vicinity, on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio, and at Fortress Monroe, more than two hundred thousand well armed men. General Halleck, who was in command in the West, had a very large army. McClellan was a skillful organizer, and had the power of making himself personally popular, but was slow, very cau- tious, and was never ready. With his magnificent army, greatly exceeding that which confronted him — he lay inactive all the fall of 186...1, and the winter of 1861-2, into February, permitting the Potomac to be closed by batteries on the western shore, above and below his army, and the rebel flag to be flaunted in his face, and in that of the government, from the Virginia hills overlooking the capital. ' It was the era of brilliant reviews and magnificent mil- itary displays, of parade, festive parties, and junketings.
The President was impatient at this inactivity, and again and again urged action on the part of the General. But McClel- lan, having in August, 1861, offended General Scott, by whom he was styled " an ambitious Junior," and caused the 1.


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