Word: mcclellan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outfought every Union General. Sandburg on Lee: "Enfolded in the churchman and the Christian gentleman, Robert E. Lee was the ancient warrior who sprang forth and struck and cut and mangled as if to tear the guts and heart out of the enemy. . . ." The Union General George Brinton McClellan, who prudently chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln a long year of anguish. Yet by resisting for months public and political pressure to remove him, Lincoln allowed him to build a great army; by later...
...temperance delegation, "looking blue & thin in the keen autumnal air," or the tantrums of Mrs. Lincoln ("The Hell-cat is getting more Hell-cattical day by day."). Except where it touches Lincoln, the main note of his diary is one of caustic or amused astonishment, particularly toward Generals McClellan ("the little Napoleon . . . afraid either to fight or run") and Benjamin Butler ("His ignorance of war leads him constantly to require impossibilities from his subordinates and to fear impossibilities from the enemy...
...Bellboys nosed out Kirkland in the final event, the relay, to score an upset over the hitherto undefeated Deacons. The two teams were two points apart before the event, but Lowell's relay team composed of Harry Hammond Wheeler Smith, Douglas Sears, and Sam McClellan beat the Kirkland mermen by a scant two yards in a nip and tuck race...
Lowell took Dudley, 42 to 19, while Kirkland beat the Commuters 45 to 16. High scorer of the Bellboys was Sam McClellan with a first in the 100-yard free style, a second in the 50-yard free style, and the anchor position in the winning relay team...
...first of the rules that McClellan explained concerned an offensive player's duration of stay in the defensive foul circle. Such a player may stay as long as he wants in the outer half of the foul circle, provided that he is not in possession of the ball. If he has the ball, however, he may only hold it for three seconds...