As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In this series on the American Civil War, the Lame Cherry has sought to reveal the Truth of the history of that war and the major characters, to make people aware of how much they have been lied to by propaganda. There is one individual though which no one has ever explored completely, as he is dismissed as incompetent or thought of as a traitor against the Union. He has always puzzled me, this George Brinton McClellan, commander of the United States Army, because in every instance he has appeared, he is conducting himself exactly opposite as one would judge his psychology to bring about an action.
For example, one of my favorite characters in American history is General George Armstrong Custer. His first commander was General McClellan and George Custer was loyal to him, as numbers of Union Soldiers were in a deep devotion, even after McClellan's fall from Lincoln's grace and American power.
Most are unaware that after the assassination of George Custer, the Grant regime smeared General Custer without mercy in the press, because George Custer exposed the corruption of the Grant Indian Ring of financiers supplying weapons to terrorist Indians. Into melee appeared the future General of the United States Army in General Nelson Appleton Miles and General George Brinton McClellan, and both were defending George Custer from this beat the dead man deader campaign to cover up the mass assassination carried out against him and his command.
George McClellan had absolutely no reason to take up this fight, and ruin himself further, but he did just that. That is not the coward or incompetent, that is something revealing about George McClellan which this Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter is about to uncover for the first time.
George McClellan was a brilliant man. His father was as surgeon who founded Jefferson Medical College.
He attended the University of Pennsylvania in 1840 at age 13, resigning himself to the study of law. After two years, he changed his goal to military service. With the assistance of his father's letter to President John Tyler, young George was accepted at the United States Military Academy in 1842, the academy having waived its normal minimum age of 16
As one can comprehend, George McClellan entered college at the age of 13 and West Point at age 16. He would graduate West Point a combat engineer and an expert in battlefield tactics.
He graduated second in his class only due to having poor drawing skills.
He was appointed to General Scotts staff in the Mexican American War, and was promoted in rank three times due to bravery on the battlefield. After the war, he would leave military service to be engineer on the Illinois Central Railroad, where he first met Abraham Lincoln who was the company attorney.
As the war between the states broke out, McClellan the Democrat offered his services to Abraham Lincoln the Republican. He was given the task of commanding the Ohio Department and did very well in West Virginia and was promoted by Lincoln to the head of the army.
General McClellan was opposed to federal interference with slavery, but would not condone secession. He would not fight a political war, nor a war against the people of the South. He would conduct a military war against the Southern military.
This is where the turn of history begins as McClellan builds a magnificent Army of the Potomac, but refuses to fight the Confederacy. There are always reasons in better training, the South has greater numbers or more equipment is necessary. It is at this point that I came across as short blurb by Confederate General, James Longstreet, stating that McClellan had political aspirations. This I was aware of as he ran for President on the Democratic ticket in 1864 on a platform of peace, but there was something of more meaning it seemed in what General Longstreet was hinting at.
This quote from Longstreet explains a great more detail of George McClellan, in President Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War had made two choices for his Army of the Union in the Mexican War years, one was Robert E. Lee and the other was the brilliant young officer, George McClellan.
There was a great deal of a rapport and respect between these two Democrats who served America so faithfully and well against enemies foreign and domestic.
It was the first time that I had been called to such august presence, to deliberate on momentous matters, so I had nothing to say till called on. The views intended to be offered were prefaced by saying that I knew General McClellan ; that he was a military engineer, and would move his army by careful measurement and preparation ; that he would not be ready to advance before the 1st of May. The President interrupted, and spoke of McClel- lan's high attainments and capacity in a style indicating that he did not care to hear any one talk who did not have the same appreciation of our great adversary. McClellan had been a special favorite with Mr. Davis when he was Secretary of War in the Pierce administra- tion, and he seemed to take such reflections upon his favorites as somewhat personal. From the hasty inter- ruption I concluded that my opinion had only been asked through polite recognition of my presence, not that it was wanted, and said no more.
George McClellan though like Robert E. Lee were engineers. They were not field generals primarily. Lee would strike as it was his nature, but McClellan would feint as that was his nature. They were both brilliant engineers who could build armies, build defenses and construct grande battlefield strategies, but they both were predictable and lost in offensive battles primarily.
General McClellan's plans were laid according to strict rules of strategy, but he was not quick or forcible in handling his troops.
This is what I believe is the hidden history of George McClellan in one of his first acts was to stop Republican vote fraud in an election concerning in the 1860 Presidential elections. For those who are not aware of the facts, Abraham Lincoln was ushered into the White House, because the Democratic Party vote was split in two.
Before the outbreak of the Civil War, McClellan became active in politics, supporting the presidential campaign of Democrat Stephen A. Douglas in the 1860 election. He claimed to have defeated an attempt at vote fraud by Republicans by ordering the delay of a train that was carrying men to vote illegally in another county, enabling Douglas to win the county.
General McClellan was a Union advocate, but had Southern friends, and as most Americans was not inclined to involve the slavery issue as a way to destroy the South in her political power. McClellan being a Democrat would embark upon a war doctrine of defeating the South with the least possible cost on the South or the North in life, or political power.
Being a brilliant man, he knew the incompetence and meddling of Abraham Lincoln on war operations, and somewhere in this, it appears what General Longstreet hinted at, that General McClellan decided that like General Washington and General Jackson, McClellan as head of the army would become the President in 1864 by as General Winfield Scott stated in the return of the wayward sister of Dixie, in an election to restore the Union.
Lincoln would be blamed for the political incompetence, McClellan for military prowess and the minority Republican party would be swept away like the Whigs, and so would the northeast financiers who would profit by the war and become the Indian Ring and murder General Custer and the Custer command.
This would fit as to why General McClellan was speaking out for George Custer after his death, because McClellan's career was finished, but he was not going to allow the money interests which created the Civil War and destroyed him, get away free in the corrupt Grant regime of destroying George Custer, who was devoted to McClellan.
There was friction from the start of the command of General McClellan and Lincoln already in 1862 was trying to oust the General, and unmercifully crucified McClellan in public hearings calling him a coward.
This is important to note in the weakness of Lincoln in he was not politically powerful enough to sack a Democrat General that the Army loved. He first had to smear the General in public, and it is not lost in this that Lincoln was not able enough to publish the claim that McClellan was fighting the war to gain the sympathies of the Confederates and to draw the Northern vote to him, as that is exactly the brilliant war that McClellan was engaged in for political ascension.
Soon after this appointment Abraham Lincoln ordered McClellan to appear before a committee investigating the way the war was being fought. On 15th January, 1862, McClellan had to face the hostile questioning of Benjamin Wade and Zachariah Chandler. Wade asked McClellan why he was refusing to attack the Confederate Army. He replied that he had to prepare the proper routes of retreat. Chandler then said: "General McClellan, if I understand you correctly, before you strike at the rebels you want to be sure of plenty of room so that you can run in case they strike back." Wade added "Or in case you get scared". After McClellan left the room, Wade and Chandler came to the conclusion that McClellan was guilty of "infernal, unmitigated cowardice".
General McClellan would not be moved though, and Lincoln was a month later meddling in the war affairs in ordering an attack. McClellan's strategy was to invade Richmond by sea. Lincoln was trying to force a land invasion, but Lincoln was rebuffed by the military in an 8 to 4 vote.
George McClellan had the backing of the United States military, because his tactics were correct, and because the military was in favor of States Rights and was not in favor of Lincoln's War blowing up American and naming Americans who did not agree with Lincoln as traitors.
As a result of this meeting Abraham Lincoln decided he must find a way to force McClellan into action. On 31st January he issued General War Order Number One. This ordered McClellan to begin the offensive against the enemy before the 22nd February. Lincoln also insisted on being consulted about McClellan's military plans. Lincoln disagreed with McClellan's desire to attack Richmond from the east. Lincoln only gave in when the division commanders voted 8 to 4 in favour of McClellan's strategy.
Considering the reality of George McClellan in being a Democrat and knowing that Lincoln's War was a political war to break the Congressional power of the Southern Democrats, McClellan's policies were correct to not use African Terrorism against Americans, The fight was a noble one in checking the Confederate army, and not one which followed under Abraham Lincoln and General Pope in burning down the South and hanging Southerners.
McClellan once again insisted that the war should be waged against the Confederate Army and not slavery.
There is in this a reality after Sharpesburg or Antietam in Maryland which states that Lincoln wanted McClellan to crush the Confederate army in retreat. This is the common propaganda, but if one observes what General Longstreet states in this period, when the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee retreated south, the Union forces in cavalry harassed them and attempted to bring them to bay.
General McClellan was in pursuit of Robert E. Lee, but Lee with Longstreet were masterfully protecting their columns. On that information, what really was taking place was General McClellan was crucified by Radical Republicans, because like Lincoln they saw McClellan as the political force to defeat them in 1864 Presidential elections. The Radical Republicans wanted scorched earth on the South to obliterate Southern political power, and the reality is Lincoln as the head of this group used Sharpesburg as his political terrorism in announcing the Emancipation Proclamation which Northern voters rejected, and then in the astute military doctrine of General McClellan endangered the Union by sacking him, and appointing a series of thee most incompetent generals in Pope, Burnside, Hooker and Rosecrans.
Abraham Lincoln now wanted McClellan to go on the offensive against the Confederate Army. However, McClellan refused to move, complaining that he needed fresh horses. Radical Republicans now began to openly question McClellan's loyalty. "Could the commander be loyal who had opposed all previous forward movements, and only made this advance after the enemy had been evacuated" wrote George W. Julian. Whereas William P. Fessenden came to the conclusion that McClellan was "utterly unfit for his position".
There is nothing wrong with a general being politically motivated. American politics is filled with voter manipulation by those who wore uniforms for political gain from John Kerry to Dwight Eisenhower. What is the issue though is when Abraham Lincoln in weakness removed a General fighting the war America needed to not bankrupt or destroy herself for special interests, all to protect the doomed Lincoln presidency where the voters should have decided who governed America, Abraham Lincoln or George McClellan.
Once again this is another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter, where the information or God Inspired insight will be found nowhere else.
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