Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) camping across the Confederacy

across the Confederacy

Focusing on prints produced in Lincoln's lifetime and in the iconographically important months immediately following his death

Rable focuses on the political fallout of the fighting rather than the tactical details

the inexperienced light artillery battery is ordered to hold its position at all hazards

large and small

Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) camping across the Confederacyby 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