McClellan’s standard dispatch - I’m outnumbered but plan to out maneuver them, followed by “we had to fall back due to incredible enemy numbers, send me more supplies and men”
I’ve walked the Antietam battlefield and wondered how in the hell that guy could have lost that battle. It was pure lack of hustle.
By the time he got to Richmond, McClellan WAS outnumbered. He was so slow, that Lee (after 7 Pines) was able to pull in more troops that McClellan could.
After that, it was all McClellan’s and Pinkerton’s fantasy.