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The president then summoned McClellan’s chief of staff (and father-in-law), Randolph B. Marcy, and spoke sharply to him: “ ‘Why in the [damn]nation, Gen. Marcy,’ said he excitedly, ‘couldn’t the Gen. have known whether a boat would go through that lock, before he spent a million of dollars getting them there? I am no engineer: but it seems to me that if I wished to know whether a boat would go through a hole, or a lock, common sense would teach me to go and measure it. I am almost despairing at these results. Everything seems to fail. The general impression is daily gaining ground that the Gen. does not intend to do anything. By a failure like this we lose all the prestige we gained by the capture of Ft. Donelson. I am grievously disappointed—grievously disappointed and almost in despair.’ ” When Marcy attempted to defend his son-in-law, Lincoln abruptly dismissed him.
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