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paleotn

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18. A note from a famous general...
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 09:43 AM
Jan 19

My name is George McClellan. Me and my angst-mister, Allan Pinkerton, thought Bobby Lee had hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of well armed, well provisioned troops. Turns out he didn't. In reality, Lee's army was under strength, they were poorly fed, and many without shoes, and all that wasn't terribly hard to confirm. Could have won several battles, The Peninsula Campaign, Antietam to name a few, and quite possibly the war 2 to 3 years early IF I'd not taken council of my ill informed, irrational fears.



The little Corsican here. Just want to say, despite the hand thing, he was no student of mine. My students don't do that shit. They make the other guy take council of their irrationally fears, like they feared my hat. Except Wellington. He didn't play that game.

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