Abraham Lincoln in George B. McClellan’s tent after the Battle of Antietam. Colorized (1862) [3551×2806]

Love seeing the crumpled loser flag on the ground.

If they made out they’d have one full beard and moustache combo

> Lincoln had been waiting for months for a Union victory to announce his plans for emancipation. He knew that doing so during a string of Union defeats would look like an act of desperation. Because Lee’s invasion of the North was halted and his army forced to retreat, Lincoln officially used this momentum to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation just five days later, on September 22, 1862.

> Despite leveraging the strategic win, Lincoln was privately irate. He believed McClellan had a golden opportunity to aggressively pursue Lee’s battered army across the Potomac River and potentially destroy them, which could have ended the war.

> When McClellan refused to move for weeks, claiming his horses were tired and his troops needed supplies, Lincoln’s patience broke. He traveled directly to the Maryland battlefield in October 1862 to confront McClellan in person. Shortly after, in November 1862, Lincoln permanently relieved McClellan of command

Lincoln’s chair is the 19th century version of a folding chair. Imagine carrying that around.

Odd treatment of the Union flag?