McClellan

I have asked the same of producer Max McClellan, who also has a distinguished career at CBS News.

No way was George McClellan (listed) a worse general than Ambrose Burnside.

Lincoln fired McClellan, his top Civil War general, after months of exasperation over how McClellan was fighting the war.

Lincoln didn't campaign, either, but he pulled levers from behind the scenes and beat McClellan by 10 points.

Think George McClellan against Abraham Lincoln, or Henry Wallace against Harry Truman.

On the following day, the forces under McClellan set up infantry fire with cannon fire just preceding it at the top of the hill.

His entire loss in that battle was about nine thousand and five hundred, McClellan's about four thousand.

They recalled the scenes of those terrible demoralizing days,—how McClellan kept out of harm's way.

A year later there were pale faces, when the army of McClellan swept through Williamsburg.

There can be little doubt now of the consummate tact of McClellan's retreat.