Excerpt from Lincoln and Stanton: A Study of the War Administration of 1861 and 1862, With Special Consideration of Some Recent Statements of Gen. Geo; B. McClellan
Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton are dead. No member of Mr. Lincoln"s Cabinet during the Peninsular campaign is now living. The Hon. Benjamin F. Wade and Andrew Johnson, then U. S. Senators and members of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, are voiceless as these their illustrious colaborers.
Emboldened by the ravages death has made during nearly a quarter of a century, George B. McClellan avails himself of the pages of the Century to present his explanation of the failure of the Army of the Potomac, while under his command. The initial article, which appeared in the May number, is an unjustifiable assault upon the memories of Lincoln and Stanton, and but for this fact would not deserve notice, as it can have no historic value. As to the details of the Peninsular campaign it furnishes no allegation of fact with which the author"s reports, memoranda, and correspondence have not made the country familiar.
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