Word: perilously
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...PERIL He nominally commanded the Union armies, but was too old, obese and infirm to lead troops. History would vindicate his strategy...
...PERIL An organizer but not a fighter. Sidelined after his Peninsula debacle, he got a second chance at Antietam. He fought to a draw there despite knowing Lee's plans...
...PERIL His plan for the first big battle at Bull Run was sound, but his Army and his logistics weren't. Union soldiers called their retreat "the Great Skedaddle...
...PERIL He vowed to "bag the whole lot" of Lee's army on the site of the war's first battle. He didn't, and was banished to Minnesota for the rest of the war. McClellan was back...
...PERIL Taking over after Antietam, he led the Union into one of the greatest slaughters of the war, losing 13,353 men outside Fredericksburg...