2521
Cleveland Morning Leader, 10 October 1864
(ed; 4 inches)
~ See original
p.2, col.1
~ View at ChronAm
2521 - L Oct. 10; ed: 2/1 - When McClellan was before the committee on the
conduct of the war, he was asked where he was on the day of the battle of
Malvern Hill. He replied, "I cannot remember."
"The reason he could not remember is because he left the field and
spent the day enjoying himself in a gunboat several miles away; and yet
such a soldier is running for the office of President. Mac knew that his
admission of having left the field and retired to a gunboat would brand
him as a coward, and he therefore told a deliberate falsehood to get him-
self out of his unpleasant predicament." (4)
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