George B. McClellanby Stephen W. Sears | |
| Category: |
"U.S. History - Military" |
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| Pages: | 406 |
| Year of Publication: | 1988 |
| Date Added: | 08/09/2006 |
| Date Read: | 06/17/1989 |
| Notes: | Controversial commander of the Northern army in the Civil War, Gen. George McClellan saw himself as God's chosen instrument for saving the Union. Sears finds serious faults with McClellan's generalship in each of the Civil War campaigns, especially in 1862 in Virginia and at Antietam, Maryland, perhaps the turning point battle of the war. He concludes that the general's personality problems, poor leadership, and failure to realistically evaluate Confederate forces should have precluded him from holding the Union's top commands. |
| My Rating: | 6 |