Seriously, what was his fucking problem?

President gorilla, I'm MAC

>>2745744
He believed he was told by God to save the Union but was afraid of making any mistakes that would humiliate him and leave him unable to save the Union, so he resolved to save the Union by sitting on his hands and doing nothing.

>>2746032
Somewhat this. He wanted to be great like Napoleon, but was terrified of fucking up or getting his men killed.

He probably also didn't want to fight a war against his fellow countrymen, and wanted to become President himself.

>>2745744
He was a giant pussy. The lesson learned is never let engineers become generals.

>>2746903
>giant pussy
Then why do Hood, Pickett, Jackson, Lee, and Grant constantly praise him as one of the best tacticians in the Civil War?

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>>2745744

Fuck off Abe

>>2745744
He was a plant by the Northern Democrats to fuck up (by being le cautiousxDD) and make Lincoln look bad so they could win the 1864 election and sue for peace.

>>2746951
Getting an army organized but refusing to use it because you're scared of breaking it, is still being a pussy.

>>2745744
Immediate presidential aspirations, Democratic sympathies.

>>2745744
>>2747878
Whom do you consider the ablest General on the Federal side?

McClellan, by all odds. I think he is the only man on the Federal side who could have organized the army as it was. Grant had, of course, more successes in the field in the latter part of the war, but Grant only came in to reap the benefits of McClellan's previous efforts. At the same time, I do not wish to disparage General Grant, for he has many abilities, but if Grant had commanded during the first years of the war, we would have gained our independence. Grant's policy of attacking would have been a blessing to us, for we lost more by inaction than we would have lost in battle. After the first Manassas the army took a sort of 'dry rot', and we lost more men by camp diseases than we would have by fighting.

>>2745744
he didn't want to sacrifice his men and that's why he was the most popular general in the army. he was also the incarnation of napoleon