| Show LEE EE MCLELLAN AND GRANT The military genius of General McClellan is be be- lug discussed again g in It seems it was all aU st started by bya a remark made by bj Senator Borah in a little speech hat liat General Lee Dee had hl paid an extravagant tribute o 0 Grant Granta genius This was disputed and and then mother another writer pointed out General Lee had broken soken with great appreciation of General McClel- McClel lun s genius genins and that has bas set all the pens working A writ writer i in one oba paper says that when General Lee heard that General McClellan had been superseded super super- 3 ded he remarked that he lie was sorry to lose Mc- Mc We TC Y e understand each other so well welI Then this riter says there was no better better organizer organizer organizer organ organ- in the thear izer in the army ann there was no commander war ar that had lint so o much the love lo of hs soldiers that lie Iw was perhaps the greatest engineer in the army but that he la lacked ked that combination ion which makes s the great general general tile the power to strike at the right time or 01 in iii the right place and to keep striking The dispute will vill go on probably for a generation generation generation genera genera- tion or two There is it no soldier that ever served under General McClellan that does not swear by for he had that trait of Napoleon j he had a fashion of saying a few fc pleasant words to this or 01 that regiment which the they never forgot while Grant would ride among them for days das without any uny further recognition than titan a simple salute Had the United States become involved in a avar war wm with Great Britain or 01 with Great Britain and anti France combined it is possible that General McCellan Mc- Mc Cellan would have been when he hc reached the command ccmmand of the arm army the thc foremost soldier of the rage ge but he lie co could ld not fight his own countrymen It vas the habit to say of him in the war day dayl tint thit th t te he Jie e had a political bee hee in his bonnet and did not nut the tho south rou antto to ant antagonize I Our own judgment is that he was but but-an an instrument in in- strument in higher highel hands that the plan was to the thc war a disappointment l t to the north until there UJ resettled settled in the hearts o northern men a determination deter deter- iou that it should lic cr never cease until slavery should be annihilated that when that was done clone then the beginning of the end l wa was seen McClelion McClel- McClel lon ion failed against the army of V Virginia 1 ginia so o did Burnside so did Hooper and e even en n Meade 1 merely made a standoff no permanent s successes s were wrought rought until the thc iron hand of Grant was laid upon up ou on the southern al army and Ind that was as never ec relaxed until the end came at Anti And i we judge Grant and MClellan no one can call fail that while one was a most accomplished ph soldier the other was was' a most aggressive 00 soldier that while McClellan l was as always making arrangements to fall buck back gracefully Grant made I his arrangements to go ahead and anti if he lie could not not g gl straight uh ahead ad to gO by b the right flank |
