Critics chastised Lincoln for his decision to send part of McDowell’s corps to the Valley rather than to McClellan, but his thinking was not unreasonable. Jackson might have been bagged if the amateur Union generals had been more capable and if they had not been plagued with torrential rain at crucial times. Moreover, it is unlikely that the congenitally timid McClellan would have taken Richmond even if he had had all of McDowell’s men at his disposal.
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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