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its purpose political rather than military;
orders McClellan to move South;
asks McClellan to justify his plan;
calls council of generals;
accepts McClellan's plan;
insists on preservation of capital;
political reasons for his anxiety to hold Washington;
reasons why his plan should have been adopted;
never convinced of superiority of McClellan's scheme;
issues General War Order to secure Washington;
unmoved by abuse of McClellan's enemies;
relieves McClellan of general command;
forced by Congress to divide Army of Potomac into corps;
appreciates importance of Western operations;
urges on Western generals;
unable to supply troops;
appoints Fremont to command Department of West;
tries to guide Fremont;
appealed to by Mrs. Fremont;
removes Fremont, his reasons;
sees military importance of Cumberland Gap;
urges construction of a railroad there;
urges Buell on;
annoyed by Buell's refusal to move;
death of his son;
discusses plan to capture New Orleans;
suddenly obliged to consider foreign affairs;
his corrections on Seward's instructions to Adams;
his statement of foreign relations in message of December, 1861;
avoids either timidity or defiance;
objects from beginning to seizure of Mason and Slidell;
proposes to arbitrate the matter;
thinks England's claim just;
wisdom of his course in surrendering the envoys;
unable to prevent slavery from entering into war, see vol.
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