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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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Explanation: General George McClellan, pictured, was a Union general of the US Civil War. Other than his famously tense relationship with Abraham Lincoln, he is remembered primarily for his ridiculous level of caution in military operations - something which, counterproductively, resulted in a great many more Union deaths than an aggressive approach would have yielded. Several opportunities to shorten or outright end the war were lost because of McClellan's tendency to overestimate the enemy by a grotesque margin.
Nevertheless, he was a good military administrator and organizer, and he did make the Union Army under his command into a formidable fighting force.
He just didn't fucking use it.