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Book Synopsis George B. McClellan and Civil War History by : Thomas J. Rowland
Download or read book George B. McClellan and Civil War History written by Thomas J. Rowland and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other Union commander's legacy in the Civil War has been the subject of as much controversy as George B. McClellan's. Since the midpoint of this century, however, he has emerged as the complex general who, though gifted with administrative and organizational skills, was unable and unwilling to fight with the splendid army he had created. Thomas J. Rowland argues that this interpretation rests squarely within the context of general historical verdicts of the way in which the North eventually triumphed. Civil War scholars have found the quality of Union leadership in the early years of the war wanting, and that it was not until U.S. Grant and W.T. Sherman emerged that success was ensured. On the other hand, Grant and Sherman knew failure but were judged less harshly than was McClellan. In George B. McClellan and Civil War History, Rowland presents a framework in which early Civil War command can be viewed without direct comparison to that of the final two years.
Book Synopsis George B. McClellan by : Stephen W. Sears
Download or read book George B. McClellan written by Stephen W. Sears and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sears has finally unraveled the mystique of this complex, brilliant Civil War general . . . A fascinating story” (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom). “Commander of the Northern army in the Civil War, Gen. George McClellan saw himself as God’s chosen instrument for saving the Union. Self-aggrandizing, with a streak of arrogant stubbornness, he set himself above President Lincoln, whom he privately called ‘the Gorilla.’ To ‘the young Napoleon,’ as McClellan’s troops dubbed him, abolition was an ‘accursed doctrine.’ Fond of conspiracy plots, he insisted that the Lincoln administration had traitorously conspired to set him up for military defeat. Although he constantly anticipated one big, decisive battle that would crush the South, he squandered one military opportunity after another, and, if Sears is correct, he was the worst strategist the Army of the Potomac ever had. Based on primary sources, letters, dispatch books, diaries, newspapers, this masterly biography is an astonishing portrait of an egotistical crank who could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.” —Publishers Weekly “Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, Sears’s persuasive critique is the best and most complete biography of this controversial general.” —Library Journal “The best biography of McClellan ever published. Sears uses intensive research, including new material, to document the tormented, wasted military career of a talented man . . . The enigma of McClellan has never been explained so well . . . Historians should be grateful.” —The Washington Post Book World
Book Synopsis The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan by : Stephen W. Sears
Download or read book The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan written by Stephen W. Sears and published by HMH. This book was released on 1989-02-27 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Gettysburg: A “valuable” collection of the letters of this controversial Civil War general (James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books). No one played as many major roles during the Civil War as Gen. George B. McClellan, nor did any other figure write such candid letters about himself, his motivations, and his intentions. For Civil War buffs, this collection is a gold mine, revealing nuggets of fresh information on military operations and political machinations, from the battle of Antietam through McClellan’s 1864 race for the presidency—as well as the uninhibited correspondence McClellan wrote to his wife—selected and introduced by the prize-winning author Stephen W. Sears, “a first-class writer and splendid historian” (The Wall Street Journal). “A treasure-trove . . . Nothing of importance concerning [McClellan’s] military strategies and tactics or the politics, policies, and issues of the war has been omitted. Sears has edited the collection with consummate economy and skill, and his introductory essays to the book’s eleven sections weave the disparate facts of McClellan’s wartime experience together.” —Library Journal “The letters are most valuable as a revelation of McClellan’s personality, which lay at the root of his military failure. They make clear that his initial success and fame went to his head.” —James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books “Introduced with insightful essays . . . [McClellan] emerges as the Captain Queeg of the Civil War.” —Harold Holzer, Chicago Tribune
Book Synopsis McClellan's War by : Ethan S. Rafuse
Download or read book McClellan's War written by Ethan S. Rafuse and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result, Rafuse sheds light not only on McClellan's conduct on the battlefields of 1861-62 but on United States politics and culture in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Book Synopsis McClellan's Own Story by : George Brinton McClellan
Download or read book McClellan's Own Story written by George Brinton McClellan and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the war for the Union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and McClellan's relations to it and them. It includes a biographical sketch of G.B. McClellan and a portrait.
Book Synopsis Lincoln and McClellan by : John C. Waugh
Download or read book Lincoln and McClellan written by John C. Waugh and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was no more remarkable pair in the Civil War than Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan. At only 35 years old, McClellan commanded the Ohio troops early in the war, and won skirmishes for the Union in western Virginia. After the disastrous Union defeat at Bull Run in the summer of 1861, Lincoln sent word for McClellan to come to Washington, and soon elevated him to commander-in-chief of the Union army. But in the late summer and fall of 1861, things took a turn for the worst. Meticulous in his planning and preparations, McClellan began to delay attacking the enemy and developed a penchant for vastly overestimating the Confederate forces he faced. All of this hampered his ability to lead an aggressive force in a fast-moving battlefield environment. Finally losing his patience, Lincoln was famously quoted as saying, "If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time." Lincoln and McClellan takes an in-depth look at this fascinating relationship, from the early days of the Civil War to the 1864 presidential election when McClellan ran against Lincoln on an anti-war platform and lost. Here, award-winning author John C. Waugh weaves a tale of hubris, paranoia, failure, and triumph, illuminating as never before this unique and complicated alliance.
Book Synopsis George B. McClellan by : H. J. Eckenrode
Download or read book George B. McClellan written by H. J. Eckenrode and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS MORE THAN THE STORY OF “Little Mac.” It is the story also of that dark center of intrigue, the nation’s capital in 1862—of Washington shaking in its shoes for fear of an invasion by “gaunt hairy beings riding into Washington like Centaurs and perhaps setting fire to the Capitol”; a Washington dominated by politicians and partisans, where party strife and bitterness were so strong that some members of the government itself preferred Union defeat to a victory which might make a Democrat (McClellan) a national hero and a presidential possibility; a Washington in which even the President and his Cabinet showed a childish impatience because McClellan did not remove the threat to the capital overnight—in spite of a liquid terrain and “the greatest military combination in modern history, Lee and Jackson”; a Washington rotten with military gossip and spy-talk in back alleys.... “THIS BOOK ORIGINATED in studies made by the historians of the Conservation Commission in the Richmond battlefield area, which is comprised in the Richmond Battlefield Park, a charge of the commission. These battlefields are the best preserved and least studied (because long inaccessible) in the country. A detailed examination of the terrain convinced the historians, both of them Southerners, that McClellan was a great general and that he has been underestimated by historians. Their opinion was confirmed by a study of the records. They came to the conclusion that it was McClellan who prevented the defeat of the North in 1861-62 when the Confederacy was relatively stronger than it was at a later time. Believing that politics should not be permitted to influence military judgments, they have written this book, partly for the purpose of doing justice to a great man who has suffered at the hands of history. It is based on the ground itself and the original sources, and is believed to be a contribution to American and Virginia history.”—Foreword
Book Synopsis Lincoln and McClellan at War by : Chester G. Hearn
Download or read book Lincoln and McClellan at War written by Chester G. Hearn and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln and his highest-ranking general, George B. McClellan, agreed that the United States must preserve the Union. Their differing strategies for accomplishing that goal, however, created constant conflict. In Lincoln and McClellan at War, Chester G. Hearn explores this troubled relationship, revealing its complexity and showing clearly why the two men -- both inexperienced with war -- eventually parted ways. A staunch Democrat who never lost his acrimony toward Republicans -- including the president -- McClellan first observed Lincoln as an attorney representing the Illinois Central Railroad and immediately disliked him. This underlying bias followed thirty-five-year-old McClellan into his role as general-in-chief of the Union army. Lincoln, a man without military training, promoted McClellan on the advice of cabinet members and counted on "Little Mac" to whip the army into shape and end the war quickly. McClellan comported himself with great confidence and won Lincoln's faith by brilliantly organizing the Army of the Potomac. Later, however, he lost Lincoln's trust by refusing to send what he called "the best army on the planet" into battle. The more frustrated Lincoln grew with McClellan's inaction, the more Lincoln studied authoritative works on military strategy and offered strategic combat advice to the general. McClellan resented the president's suggestions and habitually deflected them. Ultimately, Lincoln removed McClellan for what the president termed "the slows." According to Hearn, McClellan's intransigence stemmed largely from his reluctance to fight offensively. Thoroughly schooled in European defensive tactics, McClellan preferred that approach to fighting the war. His commander-in-chief, on the other hand, had a preference for using offensive tactics. This compelling study of two important and diverse figures reveals how personality and politics prolonged the Civil War.
Book Synopsis General Mcclellan's Own Story: Illustrated Special Edition by : George McClellan
Download or read book General Mcclellan's Own Story: Illustrated Special Edition written by George McClellan and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a great American and influential general from the Civil War First published in 1886, this remarkable story of General George B. McClellan was posthumously published by his wife, Ellen M. McClellan. The original full title is McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union - The Soldiers Who Fought It - The Civilians Who Directed It - And His Relationship To It And To Them. This spectacular reprint includes the biographical sketch of George McClellan by W.C. Prime, LL.D., and numerous digitally remastered illustrations from a pristine source. Historians and Civil War enthusiasts will enjoy this candid autobiography that tells McClellan's Civil War story from his point of view and includes numerous private letters and communications about battles, fellow generals, and President Abraham Lincoln. Remastered with the original period font and a new cover design fit for display in the finest reading rooms. Born in Philadelphia and destined to become the governor of New Jersey, George B. McClellan is known as one of the most significant Union generals early in the American Civil War. He played an important role in raising the Army of the Potomac and served as general in chief of the Union army for a brief period. He was removed from command in 1862 and went on to a successful career in politics and writing. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Causes of the war, principles of The Union, states rights and secession Chapter 2: Beginning of the war in the West, apathy at Washington, McClellan called to Washington Chapter 3: Private letters from General McClellan to his wife, June 21 to July 21, 1861 Chapter 4: Arrival at Washington, Reception by General Scott and the President, state of the army Chapter 5: Private letters from July 27 to September 30, 1861 Chapter 6: The defense of Washington, growth of an army, memorandum to the President Chapter 7: Details of the creation of The Army of the Potomac Chapter 8: Various generals, scenes in his command Chapter 9: Conspiracy of the politicians, interview at the President's office, the President's military orders Chapter 10: Private letters, Oct. 1, 1896 to March 12, 1892 Chapter 11: Events in and around Washington, Ball's Bluff, Harper's Ferry Chapter 12: McClellan succeeds Scott in command of all the armies, Halleck and Grant Chapter 13: Evacuation of Manassas, McClellan removed from chief command, plan of advance on Richmond Chapter 14: Letters and despatches relating to subjects treated in the foregoing and following chapters Chapter 15: The Peninsular campaign, landing at Fortress Monroe Chapter 16: Effects of reduction of the army, siege of Yorktown Chapter 17: Letters and despatches Chapter 18: Private letters April 1 to May 5, 1862 Chapter 19: Confederate retreat, pursuit towards Williamsburg Chapter 20: Advance from Williamsburg, plan of the campaign, movements on this line Chapter 21: Private letters May 6 to May 18, 1861 Chapter 22: White House, bridges, neglect at Washington, McDowell's retention useless Chapter 23: Operations on the Chickahominy, Battle of Fair Oaks Chapter 24: Private letters May 20 to June 26, 1862 Chapter 25: Beginnings of the Seven Days, Battle of Gaines's Mill Chapter 26: Seven Days' battles, Savage's Station, Malvern Hill Chapter 27: Private letters June 26 to August 23, 1862 Chapter 28: Letters to General Halleck and General Burnside, Secretary Stanton And more...
Book Synopsis McClellan and Failure by : Edward H. Bonekemper, III
Download or read book McClellan and Failure written by Edward H. Bonekemper, III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eyes of many historians, Union general George B. McClellan single-handedly did more damage to the Union war effort than any other individual—including Confederate commander Robert E. Lee. Promoting his own ideas and career regardless of the consequences, McClellan eventually became a thorn in the side of President Lincoln. Removed from command on November 5, 1862, McClellan left a legacy of excessive caution that continued to affect the Army of the Potomac. From West Point to Antietam, this volume examines McClellan’s army career and especially how his decisions affected the course of the Civil War. Union actions are examined in detail with special emphasis on the roles McClellan played—or did not play. Excerpts from McClellan’s orders and correspondence provide a contemporary picture and motives for his actions. An appendix examines the treatment given McClellan by various historians.
Book Synopsis McClellan's Other Story by : William B. Styple
Download or read book McClellan's Other Story written by William B. Styple and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis McClellan's Own Story by : George Brinton McClellan
Download or read book McClellan's Own Story written by George Brinton McClellan and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mexican War Diary and Correspondence of George B. McClellan by : Thomas W. Cutrer
Download or read book The Mexican War Diary and Correspondence of George B. McClellan written by Thomas W. Cutrer and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his standard reference work on the Civil War, Generals in Blue, Ezra Warner declared George B. McClellan (1826--1885) "one of the most controversial figures in American military history." In this revealing book, Thomas W. Cutrer provides the definitive edition of McClellan's detailed diary and letters from his service in the Mexican War (1846--1848), during which he began the rise that culminated in his being named general in chief of the Union forces and commander of the Army of the Potomac early in the Civil War. McClellan graduated second in his class from West Point in 1846 and served as a second lieutenant in Company A of the prestigious Corps of Engineers, the only formation of combat engineers in the United States Army. The company participated in Major General Winfield Scott's invasion of Mexico, playing a prominent role in the siege of Vera Cruz and the battles of Cerro Gordo, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, and Chapultepec and in the capture of Mexico City. Although only twenty-one years old at the war's end, McClellan earned brevet promotions to first lieutenant and then captain for his efforts. McClellan's colorful diary and frequent letters to his socially and politically prominent Philadelphia family provide a wealth of military details of the campaign, insights into the character of his fellow engineers -- including Robert E. Lee and P. G. T. Beauregard -- and accounts of the friction that arose between the professional soldiers and the officers and men of the volunteer regiments that made up Scott's command. A courageous, indefatigable, and superbly intelligent young man, McClellan formed close personal loyalties in those years. His diaries also reveal a man contemptuous of those he perceived as less talented than he, quick to see conspiracies where none existed, and eager to place upon others the blame for his own shortcomings and to take credit for actions performed by others. On the banks of the Rio Grande during his first weeks with the army, McClellan wrote in his diary: "I came down here with high hopes, with pleasing anticipations of distinction, of being in hard fought battles and acquiring a name and reputation as a stepping stone to a still greater eminence in some future and greater war." Carefully edited by Thomas W. Cutrer, these diary entries and letters do indeed trace McClellan's rapid development as a soldier and leader and put on full display the talent, ambition, and arrogance that characterized his career as general and politician.
Download or read book To Hazard All written by Robert Orrison and published by Emerging Civil War. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present seems to be the most propitious time since the commencement of the war for the Confederate Army to enter Maryland," wrote Robert E. Lee following his army's stunning success at Second Manassas. Confederate armies advanced across a thousand mile front in the summer of 1862. The world watched anxiously--could the Confederacy achieve its independence? Reacting to the Army of Northern Virginia's trek across the Potomac River, George B. McClellan gathered the broken and scattered remnants of several Federal armies within Washington, D. C. to repel the invasion and expel the Confederates from Maryland. "Everything seems to indicate that they intend to hazard all upon the issue of the coming battle," he said of the invading force. Historians Robert Orrison and Kevin Pawlak trace the routes both armies traveled during the Maryland Campaign, ultimately coming to a climactic blow on the banks of Antietam Creek. That clash on September 17, 1862, to this day remains the bloodiest single day in American history. To Hazard All: A Guide to the Maryland Campaign, 1862 offers several day trip tours and visits many out-of-the-way sites related to the Maryland Campaign. Chapters include: Confederates Enter Maryland The Federals Respond The Investment of Harpers Ferry The Battle of South Mountain The Battle of Antietam Return to Virginia
Book Synopsis Grant and Sherman by : Charles Bracelen Flood
Download or read book Grant and Sherman written by Charles Bracelen Flood and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We were as brothers," William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship to Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible. They were prewar failures--Grant, forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, who held four different jobs, including a beloved position at a military academy in the South, during the four years before the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter. But heeding the call to save the Union each struggled past political hurdles to join the war effort. And taking each other's measure at the Battle of Shiloh, ten months into the war, they began their unique collaboration. Often together under fire on the war's great battlefields, they smoked cigars as they gave orders and learned from their mistakes as well as from their shrewd decisions. They shared the demands of family life and the heartache of loss, including the tragic death of Shermans's favorite son. They supported each other in the face of mudslinging criticism by the press and politicians. Their growing mutual admiration and trust, which President Lincoln increasingly relied upon, would set the stage for the crucial final year of the war. While Grant battled with Lee in the campaigns that ended at Appomattox Court House, Sherman first marched through Georgia to Atlanta, and then continued with his epic March to the Sea. Not only did Grant and Sherman come to think alike, but, even though their headquarters at that time were hundreds of miles apart, they were in virtually daily communication strategizing the final moves of the war and planning how to win the peace that would follow. Moving and elegantly written, Grant and Sherman is an historical page turner: a gripping portrait of two men, whose friendship, forged on the battlefield, would win the Civil War.
Book Synopsis General George B. McClellan by : Warren W. Hassler
Download or read book General George B. McClellan written by Warren W. Hassler and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis McClellan; a Vindication of the Military Career of General George B. McClellan by : James Havelock Campbell
Download or read book McClellan; a Vindication of the Military Career of General George B. McClellan written by James Havelock Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
