Historical repetition

Apparently President Lincoln had his own John Kerry to deal with, an involuntarily retired general named George McClelland, a Democrat who in 1864 challenged Honest Abe for the presidency. But don't waste time with our poor paraphrased edition, check out Mark Slover's Double Canister at Ten Yards, an entertaining Midwestern blog that will give you the low-down. (Hat Tip: Vodkapundit)

As a special bonus, read on as Mark fires off another salvo at the MSM idiots who wouldn't know a mutiny from a Chinese fire drill. He gets into the recent bally-hooed story about the Army unit in Iraq that refused to make a fuel shipment. The rest of the story will surprise you and set your fears to rest that morale might be breaking down.