 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...at his own defeats on the Peninsula, McClellan's letter proceeded to lecture Lincoln on why the war "should not be a War looking to the subjugation of the people of any state, in any event," and how "neither confiscation of property, political executions of prisoners, territorial organization... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...trouble." A significant section argued against the threat of waging total war that McClellan apprehended. "It should not be a war looking to the subjugation of the people of any State. ... It should not be at all a war upon a population, but against armed forces and political organizations.... | |
 | Adam I. P. Smith - History - 2006 - 280 pages
..."should be conducted upon the highest principles known to Christian Civilization," by which he meant that it "should not be a War looking to the subjugation of the people of any state, in any event." Private property should be respected, and — pointedly, in view of the Confiscation Act that Congress... | |
 | Harold Holzer, Edna G. Medford, Frank J. Williams - History - 2006 - 180 pages
...battles. McClellan had handed Lincoln a presumptuous letter outlining his views on the conduct of the war. "It should not be a war looking to the subjugation of the people of any state," he wrote. "Neither confiscation of property, political execution of persons, territorial organization... | |
 | Frank Van der Linden - History - 2007 - 332 pages
...he insisted, must be conducted upon "the highest principles known to Christian civilization. It must not be a war looking to the subjugation of the people of any state ... It should not be at all a war upon population, but against armed forces and political organizations."... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 pages
...terrible exigency. " This rebellion has assumed the character of a war, as such it should be regarded, and it should be conducted upon the highest principles...event. It should not be at all a war upon population, buc against armed forces and political organization. Neither, confiscation of property, political executions... | |
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War; as such it should be regarded, and it should be conducted upon the highest principles known to Christian civilization. It should not be a War looking to the subjugation of the people of any State, in any event. It should not be at all a war upon... 
