George McClellan said goodbye to his beloved… Army of the Potomac on November 11, 1862. He cared deeply for their well being(much too deeply it turned out) and they repaid him with unwavering affection. Lincoln had to make the decision- The “Young Napoleon” was fighting like the war could go on for decades. But to his troops, he would forever be “Little Mac.” He left them with this thought….
Little Mac
“In parting from you I cannot express the love and gratitude I bear to you. As an army you have grown up under my care. In you I have never found doubt or coldness. The battles you have fought under my command will proudly live in our nation’s history. The glory you have achieved, our mutual perils and fatigues, the graves of our comrades fallen in battle and by disease, the broken forms of those whom wounds and sickness have disabled—the strongest associations which can exist among men—unite us still by an indissoluble tie. We shall ever be comrades in supporting the Constitution of our country and the nationality of its people.”
