Burned up

got no co-operation, no support

A Democrat publication in western New York state uses Ambrose Burnside’s resignation from command of the Army of the Potomac as reason to launch another tirade against the Lincoln Administration.

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1863:

Resignation of Gen. Burnside.

Gen. BURNSIDE on Monday [President Lincoln issued the order on Sunday, January 25, 1863] resigned the command of the Army of the Potomac, and his resignation was immediately accepted by the President. Major Gen HOOKER is now in chief command. Generals SUMNER and FRANKLIN have also been relieved of their respective commands, and thus we have in one week, the resignations of three of the most distinguished officers in our army – It is understood that Gen. BURNSIDE has repeatedly asked to be relieved, on account of not having the active co-operation of the War Department, as well as the cordial support of some of the Generals under his immediate command. This is truly a strange state of affairs, and it would seem that the threats, which of late have reached us from the War Department, are about to be realized. It has been given out that the Army of the Potomac is to be destroyed. The conduct of the Administration toward the gallant army has tended to its demoralization, and it will be impossible much longer to conceal the real purpose of the partisan maneuverers, who have disposed of its destinies from their closets at Washington.

aiming to destroy the Army of the Potomac?

The people have no longer any confidence in the Administration, nor the Administration in the army, nor the army in its commanders. The shameful malpractices of the President and his cabinet have disgusted the country, and crippled the national credit. The army in the field is fast diminishing by desertion, disease and slaughter; and it is morally impossible, in the present condition of things, to augment the thinned out ranks by a single recruit. Nothing but disaster stares us in the face. After almost two years of desperate conflict, we find ourselves financially bankrupt, with the flower of our manhood, mercilessly sacrigced [sacrificed] and not a single substantial result achieved.

It must be painfully apparent to even the most prejudiced, that the confidence of the people in the government can never be restored while a vestage of the present cabinet infests the Capital. The masses have suffered too long, and too much, to be deluded into even a lukewarm faith in the corrupt partisan Administration that has well nigh destroyed the country we love, its institutions, and all that is sacred in its association and memorable in its history. – Will the Administration listen to the voice of reason, – of the people, or will it allow the hopes of patriotism to languish in the atmosphere of disappointment?

not exactly riding to the rescue? Hooker takes charge in a “strange state of affairs”