SEPTEMBER 20, 1862:
In a letter to his wife, General
McClellan writes:
“I feel some little
pride in having with a beaten and demoralized army defeated Lee so utterly, and
saved the North so completely...I have insisted that Stanton shall be removed
and that Halleck shall give way to me as Commander in Chief. I will not serve
under him---for he is an incompetent fool---in no way fit for the important
place he holds.”
In the meantime, General Halleck asks what McClellan is
doing, having received almost no details since the battle three days
earlier. McClellan answers him:
“I regret that you
find it necessary to couch every dispatch I have the honor to receive from you,
in a spirit of fault finding, and that you have not yet found leisure to say
one word in commendation of the recent achievements of this Army, or even to
allude to them.”
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