I ask the President why McClellan was kept in the army so long after it was known - for there never was a time when anything else was known-that he was both incapable and unwilling to do anything? (Ernestine Rose)

I ask the President why McClellan was kept in the army so long after it was known - for there never was a time when anything else was known-that he was both incapable and unwilling to do anything?

Ernestine Rose

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