‘Badly Whipped He Will Be’

The Union found to its chagrin that John Pope and the war in the east were not a good fit pring 1862 had begun with such promise for the North. The “Young Napoleon,” Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, had methodically organized and, by April, launched an 80-mile thrust by the Army of the Potomac up …

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