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1864 AD (search for this): chapter 1.13
s General McClellan again placed in command to save the situation—which he did at Antietam by causing General Lee to recross the Potomac. Soon after that action General McClellan was again deprived of his command, for the reason, it was believed in 1862, that a general was wanted who preferred the success of the Republican party to the restoration of the Union. Whether this belief was or was not correct it is unnecessary to consider, but it is undeniable that in the presidential campaign of 1864 General Mc-Clellan was prevented by force and fraud from receiving the votes cast for him. In the earlier elections of 1862 on the stop-the-war issue a number of the leading Northern States gave large Democratic majorities. It was, therefore, not difficult for General Cobb and General Longstreet in 1862 to believe that in proposing an interview after the battle of Antietam General McClellan had it in mind to restore the Union by united action of the two chief armies, in defiance of politicia
January 11th, 1904 AD (search for this): chapter 1.13
McClellan for peace. [from the Baltimore sun, January 11, 1904.] For the restoration of the Union against the political Horde at Washington. [The following is of interest in connection with the preceding articles.—Ed.] The following communication addressed to a gentleman in Baltimore, makes a very interesting contribution to the political history of the Civil War to the effect that General McClellan in 1862 sought an interview with General Lee with the supposed purpose of making peace over the heads of the governments at Washington and Richmond: Bishop's house, 222 east Harris street, Savannah, Ga., January 3, 1904. My dear friend,—Your letter of the 1st instant to hand. My recollection of the conversation to which you refer is clear. General Longstreet told me more than once that immediately after the battle at Sharpsburg, or Antietam, while he was in General Lee's tent, the General handed him a letter which he had just received from General McClellan, the comm
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