Greatest Union General

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How about George C. McClellan! I think he's the best Union general. He was a far better technical general then tactical general. If he had built and trained the AOP the way it became the US would have not beaten the CS in 4 years.

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Another favorite Lincoln quote about McClellan.
"If you're not going to use the army, perhaps I could borrow it for a while?" -A.Lincoln

The thing that was said earlier about the Souths' resources being exhausted, I want to debate that. The south had thousands of tons of food and clothing in storage at warehouses in North Carolina and Atlanta, the problem was, the South had very very poor means of transporting the supplies to the armies. The Souths' railroads were so poor because years before the war the North was sucking the South dry of its tax money and using the money to build Northern infrastructure. One of the contributing factors for the war.

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McClellan was about as worthless as a dead dog.

No one but McClellan could wait 16 hours to attack Lee at Anteitem when he had Lee's battle plan!

Yes, I agree that was a terrible thing to do. The battle of South Mountain slowed McClellan down a bit. He was erring on the side of caution and was afraid the CS Forces would outnumber them.

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They should have made old Mac the Quartermaster General. I give him a lot of credit for the success of the AOP.

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And what exactly was Grant doing at Cold Harbor? Drunk in his tent I believe.

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He had a re-occurence with drinking at Cold Harbor.

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I still like McClellan comparing Lincoln to a, "Damn Baboon" or something like that.