Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War

by George C. Rable

Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln Award
Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table Book Prize
Finalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book Prize

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807179779
• ISBN13: 9780807179772
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.8" x 9.2"