Word: perilousness
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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...
...people seemed to up the ante, and the performances were pretty great across the board. Huge amounts of money were raised, not a penny lost, and politically it elevated the issue onto the global table. The whole thing just worked, unbelievably. So you f___ with that legacy at your peril. Then there's the personal thing. David Bowie was on a high afterward, and he said, "Let's do this every year." I said, "Go on, you f_______ do it then." It's so exhausting, and you get into terrible trouble at home because you're not there...