Speeches of Gen. George B. McClellan During the Presidential Campaign of 1876 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Speeches of Gen. George B. McClellan During the Presidential Campaign of 1876

In subsequent operations of the war also Ohio troops were under my command. It is natural, therefore, that I should feel a peculiar interest in those men whom I first saw pouring into the capital of the State as a body of undrilled, unorganized citizens - merely brave, patriotic, law-abiding men, who took up arms from the highest motives of duty and patriotism, leaving, without a thought for themselves, all they held dear in life, and thinking only of the danger of their country, and whom I saw, later on, changed into gallant veterans, equal to any emergency, capable of coping with any foe.

I knew also that in the admirable home provided by the nation's gratitude for the war - worn soldiers I should find many of the brave veterans of that Army of the Potomac to which I owe so much.

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