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When his advice was ignored, Lincoln peremptorily barked, “Now, my man, go away! I cannot attend to all these details. I could as easily bail out the Potomac with a spoon.”
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Lincoln added that he had studied McClellan “and taken his measure as well as he could—that he thought he had the capacity to make arrangements properly for a great conflict, but as the hour for action approached he became nervous and oppressed with the responsibility and hesitated to meet the crisis, but that he had given him peremptory orders to move now, and he must do it.”
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