McClellanism

You could think of this as "McClellanism" — after the Union Army's General George McClellan, whose notorious caution in engaging the Confederate Army so frustrated Abraham Lincoln.

Proceed With Caution 2002

You could think of this as "McClellanism" — after the Union Army's General George McClellan, whose notorious caution in engaging the Confederate Army so frustrated Abraham Lincoln.

Proceed With Caution 2002

McClellanism did not follow its chief from Warrenton; or Burnside's earnestness, Hooker's dash, and Meade's soldierly stand at

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong

The representatives of the clannish attachments which made McClellanism a species of Masonry in the army, were there in force.

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong

Like every one else, he was at first smitten with that glamour which the Western soldiers, led by Grant, soon learned to call "McClellanism."

Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman William Elliot Griffis 1885