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  1. Lincoln Removes General McClellan From Command

    Date(s): January 1, 1862 to November 30, 1862 Location: RICHMOND, Virginia Tag(s): Seven Days, Burnside, McClellan, Antietam, Union, Confederacy, Lincoln 

    In November, 1862, a change occurred in Union power as President Abraham Lincoln removed General George McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac. The New York Times stated, during “the fifteen months…he has had virtual control of the war have been utterly barren of results...Few commanders in history have had such splendid opportunities, and fewer still have so ostentatiously thrown them...