In my civil war history class I got so worked up hearing about McClellan that I raised my hand to ask if he was secretly a Confederate sympathizer.
I now know better... People can just be really bad at things.
Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
In my civil war history class I got so worked up hearing about McClellan that I raised my hand to ask if he was secretly a Confederate sympathizer.
I now know better... People can just be really bad at things.
Imagine being so bad at your job that 150 years later people muse that your performance was indistinguishable from a double agent trying to sabotage your own side.
It's a shame - McClellan whipped the Army of the Potomac into a real fighting force, and then proceed to do absolutely fuck-all of value with it. One of those "Right man, wrong place" deals.
Until I saw how limp wristed we can be with insurrectionists, it was difficult to believe.