Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) medals by Rea Andrew Redd

by Rea Andrew Redd

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stripped of its guns

The salvation of Paris was not a foregone conclusion

severing ties with Virginia

Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) medals by Rea Andrew Reddby George C. Rable (Author), T. Michael Parrish (Series Editor) The fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard narrative casting the two as foils, with the Great Emancipator inevitably coming out on top over his supposedly feckless commander. In Conflict of Command, acclaimed Civil War historian George C. Rable rethinks that stance, providing a new