McClellan always overestimated the number of enemy troops. He was afraid to engage if he did not outnumber Lee; so he wanted more troops.
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Hooker hoped to surprise the confederates from behind and take Richmond but lee marched most of his army west he left 10000 men in Fredericksburg and he order them to light campfires so union forces would think a large army was still there lee ordered a surprise attack at dinnertime on may 2.1862
He was winning the war. With victory in Atlanta, and the siege of Petersberg, Virginia (near Richmond), the Union was going to win the war, and President Abraham Lincoln was getting rid of slavery. General George McClellan, the Democratic nominee for President was a terrible, wimpy general, and he looked like the sort of leader who would give everything away in order to end the war, and might even support slavery. Almost nobody voted for McClellan, instead of President Lincoln.
they were scared because they would and did attack them, taking possesions and stripping them and feathering them and tarring them.
if she didn't worn the British of the American surprise attack Niagara would be part of the USA today.