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The Organizing Talent Of Mcclellan

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Day
5
Month
December
Year
1862
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Public Domain
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The Albany Evcnivg Journal, edited 3V Thurlow Weed, the coniidontial friend of Beeretary Seward, suys : " He was called to Washington. He was ealled at the urgent requeet of Gen. Scott. He was called by the unaninous voica of the loyal people. He "ound tho Army of the Potomac a hid" eous mob. Ho lound mutiny rifo in :he camp, and insnbordination the presiding genius of the field. He found Washington filled with drunken soldiers ; Colonels and Brigadier Generala ying 'deaddrunk' at mid-day in hotel bar-rooms; regiments whose cornrnanders had nol visiled thera for days; disciplino kuighed to scorn ; riot and lawlessness and rarapant all along our lines. Ho ohanged all this. He bro't order out of chaos. He reinstatod úiscipline. He cleared Washington of the broods of unifbnned sots tbat had so long infasted it. He oompelled incom ietent oilicers to resign. He compelled Captains and Colouels and Brigadiers to raake their headquarters with their commands, instead of at Willard's and the National. He quelled the mutinies that threatened to destroy our arroy.- He checkod the disorganiing and demoralizing tendency that had caused such profound and general alarm throughout the country. He converted a mob of worse than undlseiptioed sol diers- a rabble degraded by defeat and unmanned by panic - into what even Mr. lïussell, of the London Times, is compelled to oail ' ene oí tho finest armies in the warld.' " Without the orgamzing gonius of General McClellari, where would we have been to-day ?" 1W The famous New York Seventh regiment, which has been sneered at for avoiding "hard knocks," has furnished over 700 commissioned offieers to the army sinco the war broko out. It is said that thero are not so many graduates oi West Point in the service, and eertainly there are not any better officers, EST The General-in-Chief haa deterniiued to issue only shelter tents to the army this winter, in order to lighten the trangportation. The Quartermaster's Department is procuring large numbers of shelter tents, and will doubtlesa soon b3 ablo to supply the whole army. This is the etrongest possiblo rcfutation of the idea of winter quarters uuywhero. 13T The youngest and prettiest gir] is uo obioken if she ia u goose. It is beauty's privilege to kill time, atid titnp's privilege to kil] beauty.

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