Union generals: peninsula campaign

Your assessment might be applied to Antietam but I don't think it works for the Seven Days. That was more a case of not even trying - a complete collapse of will. He wasn't moving pieces on a map even, at times he simply removed himself from command and control completely as at Malvern Hill. I'm not sure he was a physical coward as TKI seems to think but there was something wrong with McClellan which goes beyond straightforward tactical ineptitude.

He was at least a moral coward unwilling to take risks to win the war. He was more concerned about his reputation than in victory. At least that is how I read him.
 
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