The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

To Prevent a Contingency

Anonymous. "To Prevent a Contingency." Vanity Fair, January 11, 1862, 21.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
commentary
Abstract

A Vanity Fair contributor is simply overfull with lines and ideas about the army advancing and taking Southern cities, such that the paper must urge McClellan to act immediately. Six days is too long.