And it is always better to be, or to be led by, Teddy Roosevelt, not George McClellan.

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One hundred fifty years ago Monday, on September 17, 1862, the Union army commanded by Major General George McClellan met a Confederate force under Robert E.

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General George McClellan was a great military organizer and leader.

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Over 5, 200 dead and 23, 800 wounded in one week as General George McClellan attacked then retreated, somehow finding his superior numbers inadequate, utterly incapable of admitting that he was being out-smarted by the new commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E.

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