Words Worth Noting - June 11, 2024

Gen. George “McLellan – briefly and reluctantly restored to command – fought the Battle of Antietam (called Sharpsburg in the South) just well enough to stop Lee and his invading army. McLellan was fatally afflicted, however, with what Lincoln in a cutting phrase called a case of ‘the slows’…”

Tom Wicker in Robert Cowley, ed. What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been