As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I have promised to write a White Paper on one of these most strange people in America, save until the myriads of nuts in the Obama era, in General George McClellan.
The reason the butchery of the American Civil War continued in the hundreds of thousands and for years was because of George McClellan, for the first thing you must understand is George McClellan, placed into charge of entire Union Army, never intended to win the war.
The blurted out statements of those connected to his staff were that he intended to degrade the Union and Confederate armies, and when no more battles could be fought, that an agreement on slavery would be reached to be restored, and then the democrats like McClellan and democrats like Jefferson Davis would once again rule America in political monopoly.
The thing is, when Mr. Lincoln appointed George McClellan, McClellan received glowing recommendations by then General Winfield Scott in charge of the army, and Republicans..
McClellan was an engineer and considered intelligent. This is what led to his promotion, as Robert E Lee did not want it, and all the capable Southern officers had left for the Confederacy.
The first schism which surfaced with McClellan, was that he got rid of Winfield Scott. Scott would say in being shown the door, "I still regard you as capable, but no longer as a friend". McClellan was a very weak person psychologically and wanted to be rid of all contenders, for he suffered a messiah complex, in he was sent to save his country, and as was known, his faults were minor, but others doing their job, were plotting against him and imbeciles, because they could not see the McClellan brilliance.
Feeding into George McClellan, was one rising former employee of the railroad who was hired by McClellan in Allan Pinkerton the detective. Pinkerton spied extensively and was constantly telling McClellan that Army of Northern Virginia had more men than the Army of the Potomac. General Lee would give orders for his men to parade in circles, giving the impression there were more men than there were. It was a ruse. Pinkterton was not intelligent enough to figure it out, and McClellan believed everything he was told, as he has a bit of paranoia woven into his psyche.
Abraham Lincoln upon visiting the Army of the Potomac stated, "This is not an Army. This is McClellan's personal bodyguard.
The troops loved McClellan. They loved Lincoln too. Here was another manifestation of McClellan in reviewing his army, informed a fellow officer and friend, "I could march on Washington City and make myself dictator". The friend was concerned and corrected McClellan with, "General, the men are cheering for you because of the war. You violate the Constitution and they will turn on you in an instant".
McClellan would have his mood swings too in depression in Lincoln would love him one time and the next Lincoln would be an imbecile in the manipulation of others who were conspiring against the General.
This would manifest as New York democrats would appear and whisper in McClellan's ear about being president and wresting power from Lincoln. In one such meeting, McClellan had a friend named Baldy Smith, who wondered why the General would become silent and standoffish. When McClellan revealed his intents, he produced a paper on his plans. Baldy Smith read the paper, and told the General, "General, this paper is treason". McClellan promptly ripped it up. That is until the next time the New York democrats appeared, and in the second meeting McClellan agreed to be the democratic nominee.
McClellan in 1861 if he would have marched south, he would have taken Richmond and divided forced the government to flee. It would have ended the war, but he chose not to as that was not in his plans.
At the Second Battle of Bull Run, General Pope had replaced him. McClellan's cronies, abandoned Pope and his command and they were slaughtered. McClellan had absolutely no guilt in this as he would turn on others, like General Sherman when Sherman asked for 100,000 troops in the West to deal with the war there. Sherman was branded nuts.
General Grant was to be arrested for violating orders...........the orders were for Grant to only parade before the enemy. Grant's men were so keyed up for battle, that he attacked and won. Grant was not arrested as it would have been difficult to court martial a commander of winning a battle in violation of orders.
In this, Abraham Lincoln, while helping to create this monster, seemed to understand what General McClellan was in a prima dona who could build an army. Lincoln suffered all kinds of humiliation from McClellan in not being allowed to meet the general. In one instance, the President appeared at McClellan's home, sat waiting for hours. McClellan returned home from a wedding......was drunk, went upstairs and when Lincoln inquired, the report was that the General had gone to bed.
Lincoln though finally reached the end after McClellan refused to finish off Lee at Antietam, which was a mismanagement by General Lee and an even greater failure in 'victory" by McClellan in the men he wasted for nothing again.
Lincoln ordered McClellan to cross the Potomac and attack the enemy. McClellan again replied with excuses. In one instance he was begging for more horses due to his horses had sore mouths. Lincoln replied, 'We gave you horses and perhaps you could report as to why when your horses have not been ridden for weeks, just how is it that they have sore mouths?"
There were always endless requests for more troops, more cannon, more anything by McClellan. He once spent a fortune on barges to float his army down the river to invade Virginia. The problem arose when the barges arrived, they were a foot too wide to get through the canal.
In one instance which was hilarious, a young General Custer sat on his horse as McClellan and his staff debated for the longest time how deep a river was that lay before them. Custer finally rode his horse out into the water and said, "It is this deep General."
George McClellan was someone who could make people like him. He was an engineer who in delusions thought himself a little Napoleon. The fact is he had little talent as a commanding general. He could build an army and drill it, but his tactics were to overwhelm a position for so long the enemy would slip away.
General Lee and General Stonewall Jackson had zero respect for him, as they knew they could maneuver whatever and wherever they chose, because McClellan would sit in his lines. General Stewart twice rode around the Army of the Potomac without incident on reconnaissance.
I have seen blurbs on those who say that General McClellan was good general, but the record proves otherwise. His father in law, who was his Chief of Staff once blurted out to Secretary of War Stanton who reacted with alarm in reporting to Lincoln that McClellan was thinking about surrendering to Robert E. Lee.
In forensic psychology, George McClellan was a rather feminine mind. He deluded himself into believing he was more capable than he was and in this, his delusions were that people liked him, so this was affirmation he was superior.
He was though weak and in need of validation. Bigger was always better as it reflected on his hidden fears he was really not all he spoke he was in being messianic and the only savior to America. Everyone else had nothing but faults or were imbeciles, while he was never at fault and a genius.
His Army was his validation and a fiction. It's cheers were proof of who he pretended to be, while the men dying of dysentery, deserting the ranks or slaughtered in combat in a bad use of resources, had no guilt for George McClellan. The army was his bodyguard and dispensable as a sociopath, George McClellan was the only one to empathize with.
For all of his volumes of letters, lecturing Congress and the President how to govern, yes McClellan was engaged in informing the government of how wrong they were too, none of that mattered in his attempt to become elected, as in that election of 1864, it was the Union officers who rose as a body and counselled the troops to not be swayed by McClellan and to vote for Abraham Lincoln again. The small group of cronies who McClellan had surrounded himself with, had to alienated the rest of the officers that with McClellan removed and the victories under Meade, Grant, Sherman and Sheridan began adding up, a new allegiance appeared which rejected the tyranny which McClellan groomed himself over.
In the above, one can see why no one ever could explain what George McClellan was, because he had so many divergent psycopathies that narcissist would not explain the next manifestation which would appear in which people would suffer under. He really was the naked king. He was liked, acted the part and happened to bluff his way through, surround himself with people who were sycophants or incapable of recognizing incompetence, and in the end the delusions he brought to the world, lasted about a year, until reality exposed him.
For whatever reasons, Donald Trump in trusting incapable people in 2016 AD in the year of our Lord, accepted the recommendations for the incapable people which were sent him and there was an endless parade of failures who had to be removed.
For what awaits America, Mr. Trump had better choose better this time, as America has no more time to sort things out.
Nuff Said
agtG
