Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) Section - Calvary Campaign responsible both for his being

responsible both for his being hailed as the Great Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient and half-hearted

while also pressing the president to emancipate the country’s slaves and recognize black rights

Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing

After graduating last in the West Point class of 1861

Founded in the 1700s by James Gettys

Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) Section - Calvary Campaign responsible both for his beingby 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