Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) - Hardcover

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Rable, George C.

 
9780807179772: Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0807179779 ISBN 13: 9780807179772
Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

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 understanding of the interaction between the president and his leading wartime general by reinterpreting the political aspects of their partnership.

Rable pays considerable attention to Lincoln’s cabinet, Congress, and newspaper editorials, revealing the role each played in shaping the dealings between the two men. While he surveys McClellan’s military campaigns as commander of the Army of the Potomac, Rable focuses on the political fallout of the fighting rather than the tactical details. This broadly conceived approach highlights the army officers and enlisted men who emerged as citizen-soldiers and political actors.

Most accounts of the Lincoln-McClellan feud solely examine one of the two individuals, and the vast majority adopt a steadfast pro-Lincoln position. Taking a more neutral view, Rable deftly shows how the relationship between the two developed in a political context and ultimately failed spectacularly, profoundly altering the course of the Civil War itself.

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George C. Rable is professor emeritus of history at the University of Alabama and the author of numerous books on the Civil War, including Damn Yankees! Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South.

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Verlag
Louisiana State University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807179779
ISBN 13 
9780807179772
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Anzahl der Seiten
476
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