McClellan McClellan the Soldier: John C. Ropes

[contestedground]

Here's an interesting assessment of George B. McClellan. Enjoy!

 

[DanSBHawk]

All these letters show McClellan's mind to have been in
anything but a healthy condition. They reveal to us a man
exalted with an insufferable egotism, viewing things all out of
their due proportion, cherishing the most bitter resentments,
never dreaming of imputing to himself any blame whatso-
ever, in a state of hopeless moral confusion, and practising
all sorts of deceptions on his own mind.

I see the author shoots down some of the excuses that are trotted out for Mac's failures, such as the Navy failing him at Yorktown and the faulty disposition straddling the Chickohominy.