ng McDowell;
shows apparent vacillation;
explains situation in letter to McClellan;
urges him to strike;
annoyed by politicians;
tries to forward troops;
orders McDowell to join McClellan without uncovering capital;
criticised by McClellan;
refuses to let McDowell move in time;
sends McDowell to rescue Banks;
loses his head;
insists on McDowell's movement;
his blunder a fatal one;
not a quick thinker;
ruins McClellan's campaign;
begins to lose patience with McClellan's inaction;
appoints Halleck commander-in-chief;
his constancy in support of McClellan;
does not sacrifice McClellan as scapegoat;
visits Harrison's Landing;
avoids any partisanship in whole affair;
appears better than McClellan in campaign;
yet makes bad blunders;
stands alone in failure;
remains silent;
allows Halleck a free hand;
his reasons for appointing Halleck and Pope;
decides to reappoint McClellan;
shows sound judgment;
places everything in McClellan's hands;
indignant at slight results from Antietam;
urges McClellan to pursue;
his order ignored by McClellan;
writes McClellan a blunt letter insinuating sluggishness or cowardice;
replaces McClellan by Burnside;
his extreme reticence as to his motives;
attacked by Copperheads;
criticised by defenders of the Constitution;
harassed by extreme Abolitionists;
denounced for not issuing a proclamation of emancipation;
his reasons for refusing;
explains his attitude as President toward slavery;
struggles to hold Border States;
general dissatisfaction with, in 1862;
held inefficient by Chase;
and by Congressmen;
but believed in by people;
addressed by Greeley with "Prayer of 20,000,000";
his reply to Greeley;
his reply to Abolitionist clergymen;
points out folly of a mere proclamation;
thinks silently for himself under floods of advice;
writes draft of Emancipation Proclamation;
questions expediency of issuing;
reads proclamation to cabinet;
adopts Seward's suggestion to postpone until a victory;
issues preliminary proclamation after Antietam;
takes entire responsibility;
not influenced by meeting of governors;
fails to appease extremists;
supported by party;
thinks an earlier proclamation would not have been sustained;
warned that he will cause loss of fall elections;
always willing to trust people on a moral question;
supported by Border States in elect