Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) medals and the obstacles they set

and the obstacles they set before him

the Allies were confronted with a terrible dilemma

While recognizing that many soldiers changed their views on slavery and emancipation during the war

The salvation of Paris was not a foregone conclusion

severing ties with Virginia

Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) medals and the obstacles they setby George C. Rable (Author), T. Michael Parrish (Series Editor) 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. In Conflict of Command, acclaimed Civil War historian George C. Rable rethinks that stance, providing a new