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Article: McClellan and Halleck at war: the struggle for control of the union war effort in the West, November 1861-March 1862.(George Brinton McClellan; Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck)
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- Civil War History
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- March 1, 2003
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On November 1, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed thirty-four-year-old George Brinton McClellan general in chief of the United States Army. The move was not unexpected. McClellan had known for some time that Brevet Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott's twenty-year tenure as commanding general was coming to an end. He also knew that Lincoln was considering no other man for Scott's replacement. Yet near the end of the meeting in which he informed McClellan of his promotion, Lincoln felt compelled to wonder out loud if overseeing the organization and operations of the western armies and the Army of the Potomac might be too much for any one man to handle. According to Lincoln's ...
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