August 7, 1862---Falling star

AUGUST 7, 1862:      

George Templeton Strong writes in his journal about George B. McClellan’s fading lustre:

“McClellan’s great name is growing very obscure, I regret to say, and we generally doubt whether he is a genuine congener of Napoleon after all. As we deified him without reason, I suppose we are free to reduce his rank whenever we like. Prevailing color of people’s talk is blue. What’s very bad, we are beginning to lose faith in Uncle Abe.”