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Informationen zum Autor Ethan S. Rafuse is Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the author, editor, or co-editor of eight books on Civil War history, including Antietam, South Mountain, and Harpers Ferry: A Battlefield Guide and Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865. Klappentext As a result, Rafuse sheds light not only on McClellan's conduct on the battlefields of 1861-62 but on United States politics and culture in the years leading up to the Civil War. Zusammenfassung Shows how McClellan 's political beliefs influenced his leadership Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Traditions and Associations . . . Were All on the Side of the Old Whig Party" 2. "I Can Do As Well As Anyone in Both My Studies and My Military Duties" 3. Political Realignment 4. "A Strong Democrat of the Stephen A. Douglas School" 5. To Kill Secession 6. "A New and Strange Position" 7. Supreme Command 8. "You Have No Idea of the Pressure Brought to Bear Here" 9. "What Do You Think of the Science of Generalship?" 10. The Peninsula Campaign 11. "I Do Not Like the . . . Turn That Affairs Are Taking" 12. "He Has Acted Badly" 13. "To Meet the Necessities of the Moment" 14. "The Most Terrible Battle" 15. "It Is My Duty to Submit to the Presdt's Proclamation & Quietly Continue Doing My Duty" 16. The Last Campaign Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
