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The most popular and influential commander in the Union Army failed to appear at Lincoln’s New Year’s Day reception at the White House—an ominous start to 1862. George B. McClellan apparently was incapacitated, confined to bed with typhoid fever. (Some of his Radical detractors insisted that Little Mac was faking illness.) Despite the splendid diplomatic gathering at the Executive Mansion, which Mary Todd Lincoln had renovated lavishly, Lincoln had to endure this latest indignity at the hands of his leading general.
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Muller, G.H. (2017). Chapter 5 The Heart of the Rebellion: “No More Playing at War”. In: Abraham Lincoln and William Cullen Bryant. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31589-8_6
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