JULY 8, 1862:
After dusk, President Lincoln arrives by steamer at
Harrison’s Landing, Virginia, to confer with General McClellan on the status
and condition of the Army of the Potomac.
McClellan takes this opportunity to give Lincoln his “strong and frank
letter” written the day before, wherein the General points out where Lincoln
has gone wrong, and how the nation might be saved only by following a course of
preserving the Union, conciliating the South, and ignoring the slave
question. The President reads the letter
on the spot, thanks McClellan for his thoughts, and never mentions it to him
again.
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