Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) camping large and small

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Rable focuses on the political fallout of the fighting rather than the tactical details

Focusing on prints produced in Lincoln's lifetime and in the iconographically important months immediately following his death

Thousands of female applicants from across the country flooded Washington with applications

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Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) camping large and smallby 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