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Title: MCCLELLAN'S WAR The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0253345324
ISBN 13: 9780253345325
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+

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"A superb piece of historical scholarship. Rafuse has crafted a book that is groundbreaking in its conception." �Joseph L. Harsh, author of Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861�1862

"Brings something new, or at least relatively unknown, to the 'McClellan debate.'... It is the first work I have read that explains McClellan's approach in a way that is both somewhat favorable and satisfactory, showing the basis of McClellan's views." �Brian K. Burton, author of Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles

This biography of the controversial Union general George B. McClellan examines the influences and political antecedents that shaped his behavior on the battlefield, behavior that so frustrated Lincoln and others in Washington that he was removed from his command soon after the Union loss at Antietam. Rather than take sides in the controversy, Ethan S. Rafuse finds in McClellan's politics and his desire to restore sectional harmony ample explanation for his actions. Rafuse sheds new light on the general who believed in the rule of reason and moderation, who sought a policy of conciliation with the South, and who wanted to manage the North's military resources in a way that would impose rational order on the battlefield.

About the Author

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.

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