Weaknesses of the Union in the Civil War
Imagine you’re playing a video game where your main character keeps switching out. That was the Union army for the first two years of the war. President Lincoln went through generals like you go through coffee pods.
McClellan was great at training troops but terrified to fight. Think of him as that friend who spends four hours researching the perfect recipe but then orders takeout because he’s too nervous to cook.
Then came Burnside, who rushed into battle like a kid who forgot to read the instructions on a board game. The result? The horrific Union loss at Fredericksburg, where soldiers were mowed down charging a stone wall. It was a painful, expensive lesson in humility.