Book/Printed Material McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set forth and vindicated.
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Image 1 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set …- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 2 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set …- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 3 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set …- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 4 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … Cara aiama w Si__Swemr mt seera me mane ee a oe a PRAHA AST ae- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 5 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … MCCLELLANS MILITARY CAREER REVIEWED AND EXPOSED THE MILITARY POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION SET FORTH AND VINDICATED Published by the Union Congressional Committee WASHINGTON PRINTED BY LEMUEL TOWERS 1864- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 6 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … t y a tf i The following Chapters are a condensation and revision of the series of twelve articles in review of McClellans Report by Wiii1ram Swinrox published in the New York…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 7 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … MECLELLANS MILITARY CAREER REVIEWED AND EXPOSED Lt a I McOLELLAN AS A POLITICAL STRATEGIST It is a fact singularly characteristic of General McClellan that having won what ever reputation he enjoys in…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 8 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 5 term are written either from the battlefield itself or in the impossibility of that as speedily after the action as it is possible for the staff to collect the requisite data…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 9 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 5 sould have turned to immense account General McClellan had but to ask and it was given himindeed it came without asking Every energy of the Government and all the resources of…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 10 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 6 advance became progressively more and more imperativedid or would Genera McClellan consent to move his army If there are any considerations that go to justify this delay it is only fair…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 11 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 7 Now I think I ean show that the rebel army on the Potomac so far from being of the foree of 150000 men was never more than onethird that number The…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 12 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 8 ginia furnishes From this time forth begins a series of whinings and whimperings for troops the most extraordinary ever put on record I have not the force I asked for send…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 13 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 9 this long period of drg weather the roads are very good So General Fitz John Porter in reply to a query as to the condition of the roads says As far…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 14 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 10 was at length broken not by the motion of McClellan but by a word of initiative attered by the President On the 27th of January 1862 Mr Lincoln issued Gen eral…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 15 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … ii prevent the junction of the enemys right with his centre affording the oppota nity of destroying the former would remove the obstructions to the navigation of the Potomac would reduce the…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 16 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 12 pletemess with which they cover the whole ground They were never answered simply because they were and are unanswerable But President Lincoln feeling the weight of the maxim that a general…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 17 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 13 of the Peninsulawhich he had before spoken of as one promising less celerity and brillianey of result and only to be adopted in case the worst cameto the worst remgined and…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 18 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 14 diately available for the defence of Washington should the movements of the enemy endanger the Capital The conclusion is irresistible therefore that General McClellan was bound by the Presidents order to…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 19 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 15 in ample time to participate in the battles before Richmond i shall demonstrate that had McDowels entire Corps been sent to him at the time that Franklins di vision was forwarded…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 20 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 16 roe to give Genera McClellan any effectual aid either on the James or York rivers the presence of the navy as just intimated being necessary to watch the Merrimac It is…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 21 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 17 five thousand rebels present to dispute his progress All that can possibly save this from being hereafter esteemed a bit of monstrous burlesque is that it is vouched for by the…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 22 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 18 would both reason and act in this way seems to have been duly appreciated by the President who communicated this impression to General McClellan in numerous dispatches of which the following…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 23 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 19 tem under which the Provisional Army was organized Its Winter at Manas sas had greatly reduced it by disease and expiration of the term of service of the one yeur troops…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 24 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 20 ally present at this his first battle he could know nothing of it from his own know ledge were it not for the other circumstance that there are on record dispatches…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 25 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 21 He fears that Hooker has lost considerably because he knew but knew very little more that Hooker had been under heavy fire during several hours of the day while he was…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 26 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … original motives what were really afterthoaghts and by an adroit use of the sup pressio verithat General McClellan endeavors to give a false coloring to actions and events But unfortunately for the…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 27 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … r 23 extreme reluctance as it for the time being diverted him from his proposed march to jois McClellan which he had extremely at heart Thus early was the order detaining McDowells…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 28 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 24 Of events on the Chickahominy so damning to McClellan so humiliating to the whole country there is neither the space nor the patience here to speak Two decisive battles were fought…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 29 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 25 demoralized and dispirited He left one in the floodtide of success the morale of the other restored by the prestige of great victories IX HOW POPE GOT OUT OF HIS SCRAPE…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 30 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 26 Monroe and Wewports News And with this I leave it to find it turning up again at Alexandria where I shall have to review a series of events the most ex…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 31 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 27 The 28th of AugustOn the morning of the 28th Hallecktelegraphs directly to Franklin On parting with Gen McClellan about 2 oclock this morning it was understood that you were to move…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 32 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 28 patch the most extraordinary ever penned by any man wearing a soldiers uniform I pause for a moment to ask the reader to take in a full realizing sense of the…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 33 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 29 ap to the very door of treason without passing within It is now certain that it was the avowed purpose of McClellan and his friends so to arrange matters as that…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 34 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 30 accomplish his designed objectthe capture of Harpers Ferry its garrisons and stores but connected with this and General McClellans responsibility for it there are one or two circumstances that deserve more…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 35 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 31 Washington by a great part of the command of Pope numbered at this time over a hundred and twenty thousand menthat is that MeClellans furee outnumbered the enemys more than two…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 36 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … 32 on the rainy November morning when the movement finally began We could better have advanced in September or October with the army barefoot than we can now perfectly supplied After nearly…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 37 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … GHORGE H PENDLETON THE COPPERHEAD CANDIDATE FOR VICEPRESIDENT Ke culslic mam CconereSsion a CommiprtTe 163 1365 iN rate en ee Oe His hostility to the American Republic illustrated by his record as…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 38 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … ve Gnd a gd Dodarstenetts atiteast nokta ai DW ehaeh aed od ore R Haas axlt ko Seeds See ae note Pee s dle a 7 tae A if- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 39 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … THE COPPERHEAD CANDIDATE FOR VICEPRESIDENT Grorcz H Penpueron now the canddate of a party in full sympathy with existing re belion for the second office in the gift ot the American people…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
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Image 40 of McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set … ofina South Carolina Georgia Fiorida Alabama Missia sippi Louisiana Texas Arkansas Tennessee Kentucky and Missonri and all new States annexed and admitted into the Union or formed or erected within the jurisdiction…- Contributor: Swinton, William - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
About this Item
Title
- McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed: the military policy of the administration set forth and vindicated.
Names
- Swinton, William, 1833-1892.
- Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Washington, Printed by L. Towers, 1864.
Headings
- - Campaign literature, 1864--Republican
- - McClellan, George B.--(George Brinton),--1826-1885
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
- - LAC aaa 2019-07-01 update (1 card)
Medium
- 32 p. 24 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E458.4 .R357 no. 1
- E467.1.M2 S96
Library of Congress Control Number
- 03033159
Online Format
- online text
- image