[The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis Fisher Browne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln CHAPTER XX 1/1
Lincoln and McClellan--The Peninsular Campaign of 1862--Impatience with McClellan's Delay--Lincoln Defends McClellan from Unjust Criticism--Some Harrowing Experiences--McClellan Recalled from the Peninsula--His Troops Given to General Pope--Pope's Defeat at Manassas--A Critical Situation--McClellan again in Command--Lincoln Takes the Responsibility--McClellan's Account of His Reinstatement--The Battle of Antietam--The President Vindicated--Again Dissatisfied with McClellan--Visits the Army in the Field--The President in the Saddle--Correspondence between Lincoln and McClellan--McClellan's Final Removal--Lincoln's Summing-Up of McClellan--McClellan's "Body-Guard".
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