Too useful to sacrifice : reconsidering George B. McClellan's generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam / Steven R. Stotelmyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stotelmyer, Steven R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military campaigns.

Command of troops.

McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885.

McClellan, George B.

Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

Maryland.

Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia. Special Orders No. 191.

Confederate States of America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

El Dorado Hills, CA : Savas Beatie, [2019]

Summary:

"The importance of Robert E. Lee's first movement north of the Potomac River in September 1862 is difficult to overstate. After his string of successes in Virginia, a decisive Confederate victory in Maryland or Pennsylvania may well have spun the war in an entirely different direction. Why he and his Virginia army did not find success across the Potomac was due in large measure to the generalship of George B. McClellan, as Steven Stotelmyer ably demonstrates in Too Useful to Sacrifice: Reconsidering George B. McClellan's Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Fallacies regarding the Lost Orders and the Maryland Campaign of 1862

Antietam: The sequel to South Mountain

All the injury possible : the true "prelude" to Antietam

General John Pope at Antietam and the politics behind the myth of the unused reserves

Supplies and demands : the demise of General George B. McClellan

Appendix 1: Pyrrhic victory: The seven days

Appendix 2: Transcript of "Lost Order" given to McClellan

Appendix 3: The sunken road vs. bloody lane

Appendix 4: Little Mac at the front

Appendix 5: The Pope's bull

Appendix 6: The war within : the radicals behind McClellan's lines

Appendix 7: The Unionist theme and the Lee tradition.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781611213058

1611213053