An expanded version of this post appeared on the Emerging Civil War blog this past January. Check it out here.
George B. McClellan and a Whiff of Treason in High Places.
An expanded version of this post appeared on the Emerging Civil War blog this past January. Check it out here.
Alex Rossino Online 
Alex:
I knew that McClellan was not opposed to slavery (neither was Custer) but was certainly not aware of this episode!
Thanks for sharing.
Doug
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Sure thing, Doug. To be clear, there is no smoking gun that implicates McClellan in the plot referred to by Key. That said, there does seem to be evidence that Lincoln suspected McClellan’s involvement in, or at least sympathy with, the plot’s aims as described. McClellan’s subsequent inactivity appears to have reinforced that suspicion.
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