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May 21, 1862

Posted: May 21, 2016 in On this Day in the Civil War
Tags: abraham lincoln, american civil war, american history, confederate, general mcclellan, On this Day in the Civil War, the american civil war, the civil war, union

On this day in the Civil War, Union General George McClellan continues to request more troops from President Abraham Lincoln, to join the Army of the Potomac. Throughout General McClellan’s Civil War career, he significantly overestimates the size of the Confederate Army and demands additional troops.

After the Antietam campaign, President Lincoln confides to a friend that he “had tried long enough to bore with an auger too dull to take hold. He (McClellan) has got the slows.”

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General George McClellan

(Photo Credit: National Archives)

May 13, 1864

Posted: May 13, 2016 in On this Day in the Civil War
Tags: 1864, abraham lincoln, american civil war, american history, horace greeley, may 13, the civil war, union

On this day in the Civil War, Horace Greeley writes in the New York Tribune, “Our own conviction is…that it is advisable for the Union party to nominate for president some other among its able and true men than Mr. Lincoln.”

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