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Chiefly restoring discipline and morale in the Army of the Potomac after its humiliation at Bull Run, when the troops were just hanging around the streets of Washington with nowhere to go and nothing to do.

His term as General-in-Chief of the Union armies was not a success - he turned out to be all talk and no action, so Lincoln fired him.

In the election of 1864, McLellan stood against Lincoln, but was defeated.

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