Saruman
Sergeant
- Joined
- Jun 10, 2011
Gideon Welles recounts a conversation that he had with George B. McClellan in May 1862:
"[McClellan] said he desired of all things to capture Charleston; he would demolish and annihilate the city. He detested, he said, both South Carolina and Massachusetts, and should rejoice to see both States extinguished. Both were and always had been ultra and mischievous, and he could not tell which he hated most. These were the remarks of the General-in-Chief at the head of our armies then in the field, and when as large a proportion of his troops were from Massachusetts as from any State in the Union..."
- Gideon Welles, Sept 3, 1862
Maybe McClellan should have fought for the South. Just imagine he and Joe Johnston working together to plan a bold offensive into the heart of Massachusetts ;-)
"[McClellan] said he desired of all things to capture Charleston; he would demolish and annihilate the city. He detested, he said, both South Carolina and Massachusetts, and should rejoice to see both States extinguished. Both were and always had been ultra and mischievous, and he could not tell which he hated most. These were the remarks of the General-in-Chief at the head of our armies then in the field, and when as large a proportion of his troops were from Massachusetts as from any State in the Union..."
- Gideon Welles, Sept 3, 1862
Maybe McClellan should have fought for the South. Just imagine he and Joe Johnston working together to plan a bold offensive into the heart of Massachusetts ;-)
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