September 20, 1862: In a letter to his wife, Gen. McClellan
writes: “I feel some little pride in having with a beaten and demoralized army
defeated Lee so utterly, and saved the North so completely.” He adds, believing that he can now capitalize
on his political stock: “I have insisted
that Stanton shall be removed and that Halleck shall give way to me as
Commander in Chief. I will not serve under him – for he is an incompetent fool
– in no way fit for the important place he holds.”
---Gen.
Halleck asks what McClellan is doing, having received almost no details since
the battle three days earlier. McClellan
answers:
I regret that you find
it necessary to couch every dispatch I have the honor to receive from you, in a
spirit of fault finding, and that you have not yet found leisure to say one
word in commendation of the recent achievements of this Army, or even to allude
to them.
---Near
Shepherdstown, Virginia, Confederate troops under A.P. Hill spar with troops
from FitzJohn Porter’s corps for an hour.
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