so you would have three forces converging on joe johnston's 55 to 60,000 man army all at once. mcclellan would have nearly three-to-one numerical superiority over the army in northern virginia, and while there was no guarantee of victory in the peninsula, this advantage would have been considerable for mcclellan and very difficult for johnston to have defended against, three directions perhaps simultaneously. okay. we have jackson's victory at winchester. everything changed in the valley. the question now, jackson's at harpers ferry now. the question before lincoln was clear, what should he now do with fremont and mcdowell. should he permit them to join mcclellan or should he employ them against the unknowing force supposedly confronting geary? there was no panic in lincoln's decision, again, they were simply the wrong ones. on the afternoon of may 24th, he telegraphed his decision. in consequence of general banks' critical position, i am compelled to suspend general mcdowell's movements to you. the enemy is making a desperate push on harpers ferry and we are trying to throw fr

on creates a structure in which there are three and four-star generals, and people like lee and joe johnston and beauregard and samuel cooper pronounced coopah -- he's from new jersey of all things. [ laughter ] he's the senior ranking general in the confederate army and he's from new jersey. it's going to be a strange war, you have to understand that. davis is really stuck with these people. they've got so much rank that if, like johnston or like beauregard, they proved themselves to be inadequate or unsatisfactory, it's very difficult to move them aside. to lincoln's credit, he was much better at shelving inadequate or unul generals and i think taking more chances on elevating people from the ranks. davis will really only try it once when he jumps john bell hood from major general to the rank of lieutenant general, then temporary general in 1864, with disastrous results but he jumps them over several senior officers, and the result is a, it was very unsuccessful in command and b, davis contributes to an already poisoned command army culture in tennessee because of the miffed feelings of th

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