Lincoln becomes humiliated and Disappointed that McClellan could not battle the Yorktown defense before Johnston got most of his army to the peninsula April 9 th Lincoln warns McClellan by saying it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow…I have never written you, or spoken to you, in a greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you….but you must act. McClellan's only action was to inch forward with his siege Meanwhile Johnston brought 40,000 more men to the peninsula.
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