Ethan S Rafuse

McClellan's War

The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 148mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 807g
• ISBN-13: 9780253006110
• ISBN-10: 0253006112
• Artikelnr.: 34926628

Autorenporträt

Ethan S. Rafuse

Inhaltsangabe

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