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Lincoln and McClellan : the troubled partnership between a president and his general / John C. Waugh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waugh, John C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Military leadership.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885.
- Command of troops.
- McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885--Military leadership.
- McClellan, George B.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- United States.
- History.
- Command of troops--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Contents:
- Parallel beginnings
- Between two wars
- Catching the brass ring
- The real McClellan
- Man on horseback
- The numbers game
- Under siege
- Presidential angst
- Planning for Armageddon
- Troubled minds
- Yorktown blues
- At the gates of Richmond
- Shifting blame
- Dogfight down the James
- New policy and old brains
- In command of nothing
- The road to Sharpsburg
- Hellfire on the Antietam
- The quiet after the storm
- McClellan's bodyguard
- Fatigued horses
- Sacked
- The unpolitical politician
- Two storks by a frog pond
- Sound and fury.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical reference (pages [219]-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230613492
- 0230613497
- OCLC:
- 537652623
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