F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 41

superior ability. A general, to hope in the success, has to have the
the trust and respect of his/her troops. To remove one whom has, and
fills his/her place with one whom doesn't have, it is a crime that what nobody is able
is greater. It is a crime against the brave men to which lives are
the risk of the ability of their commander. Our government
it committed this crime when it gave the command of the army of the
Potomac to General Burnside. That general was the better judge of that that
he could do, and he/she freely confessed his/her incapability for so tall a
command. But the government would not be postponed by this confession
of the weakness from a general, preferring to compensate him/it for
his/her honesty, and it doesn't make any account of his/her ability. I accept this my,
child as the only reason because General Burnside was given so tall a
command. As for his/her ability as a general, he gave us a test of
what when he let the rebels fall again, and you/he/she is strengthened well to
Fredericksburg. To show, however from what a general could do
impossibility that tries, he sent the brave army of the Potomac to
is butchered by an enemy covered with walls of stone. I tell him my,
child, was one dark day for the nation when that was done. It
multiplied our adversities, it gave a deeper wound to our pain and
you are distressed, and it brought the dishonor on our arm.

I will pass on as slightly these adversities, my child as possible,
only hoping that they will serve them us as a warning in the future.
Having buried Burnside I lavish under the adversities of his really
incapability, the question came again on, where it is able us we find a
general to do on these rebels for us, and does it earn us a small victory?
The great Grant was doing he wonders for us in the west. He was daring,
serious, and valiant. And this was the secret of his/her success. But in
the east we had seriously shaken for of the one whom could do
anything.

General prostitute was brave and daring. But, my child, he had man