Trivia 11-13-17 Who Said That?

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“If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three.”
Edwin M. Stanton, the United States secretary of war commenting on General George B. McClellan. McClellan often overestimated the number of enemy forces opposing him, and so he always needed and wanted more men and more supplies before he could take offensive action.

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Edwin Stanton quoted as having said this about General George B McClellen.
(Photo below is a rarely seen photo of Stanton with his young son Eddie.)

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