...warlike to constitute a nation. We have not only to defeat their armed and organized forces in the field, but to display such an overwhelming strength...Our late reverses make this course imperative. Had * Official War Records, vol. v, p. 6. BLUFF. \ve been successful in the recent battle [Manassas] it...

...resistance. Our late reverses make this course imperative. Had * Official War Records, vol. v, p. 6. we been successful in the recent battle [Manassas]...possible that we might have been spared the labor and expense of a great effort; now we have no alternative. Their success will enable the political leaders...

...warlike to constitute a nation. We have not only to defeat their armed and organized forces in the field but to display such an overwhelming strength...spared the labor and expenses of a great effort." From these unexceptionable premises McClellan concluded that for field operations that should sweep...

...command, his machine was regarded as ready for use, but he was still at work upon his deliberate plan "to display such an overwhelming strength as will...class, of the utter impossibility of resistance." The public and the government, more patient since the revelations of Bull Run, now began again to demand...

...warlike to constitute a nation. We have not only to defeat their armed and organized forces in the field, but to display such an overwhelming strength...spared the labor and expenses of a great effort." In other words, General McClellan said that, in hia judgment, no single success, no matter how striking,...

...warlike to constitute a nation. We have not only to defeat their armed and organized forces in the field, but to display such an overwhelming strength...spared the labor and expenses of a great effort." In other words, General McClellan said that, in his judgment, no single success, no matter how striking,...

...warlike to constitute a nation. We have not only to defeat their armed and organized forces in the field, but to display such an overwhelming strength...imperative. Had we been successful in the recent battle (Mansssas) it is possible that we might have been spared the labor and expense of a great effort; now...

...attitude. "Little Mac" argued that Union forces were not merely to defeat the Confederacy's armies but "to display such an overwhelming strength, as...aristocratic class, of the utter impossibility of resistance. By thoroughly defeating their armies, taking their strong places, and pursuing a rigidly protective...

...Confederacy. McClellan's chief strategic aim was "to display such an overwhelming strength, as will convince our antagonists, especially those of the governing...class, of the utter impossibility of resistance." "The contest began with a class," McClellan wrote in August of 1861, but "now it is with a people,"...

...McClellan unambiguously stated: "We have not only to defeat their armed and organized forces in the field, but to display such an overwhelming strength as will convince all our antagonists ... of the utter impossibility of resistance." The purpose of this strategy was to reassert the authority...