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to meet with McClellan to urge him to move,
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to push into northern Virginia,
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to push after Lee's Army in early autumn,
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while the weather was so good.
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And McClellan did not move,
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and a couple of days after that he was fired; and fired for good.
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Although McClellan will not leave history of course,
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he will come back to be the Democratic Party's
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candidate for president in 1864 against Abraham Lincoln.
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Now it is, of course, in the wake of Antietam
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that Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation.
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Let me turn to that now and explain