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Excerpt from McClellan From Ball's Bluff to Antietam
The following articles are portions of a series which appeared originally in Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, and which were devoted to the review of General McClellan and his battles, from the time of the commencement of his career at Ball's Bluff, down to what Mr. Wilkes has justly characterized as "the unspeakably disgraceful battle of Antietam." The campaign in Western Virginia, which at most was but a series of skirmishes (and which, notwithstanding its boasted battles, and pompous bulletins, summed up a loss of merely forty killed and two hundred wounded), was early, credited by Mr. Wilkes to Roseorans; and this judgmentwas all the more strikingly sustained by the subsequent proofs that, while McClellan could never be induced to venture into battle, Roseorans was always present where his soldiers were engaged, and at Murfreesboro' embarked his fortunes continually in the very outer wave of action.
It is worthy of observation, that Mr. Wilkes was, at the outset of the war, one of those writers who entered most warmly into the advocacy of McClellan, and was only detached from his support when he saw him refuse, for seven months, to attack the rebels at Manassas, though he had over two hundred thousand troops, and could have found them at the mere distance of a morning's march. The subsequent turning of his back-upon these retreating rebels, in order that he might make a roundabout voyage to the Peninsula, and thus give them time to reinforce at Richmond, at once revealed either that he was devoid of courage or capacity, or that his real intentions were not exhibited upon the surface.
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