Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) pfarr McPherson examines Lincoln's deft navigation

McPherson examines Lincoln's deft navigation of the crosscurrents of politics and wartime strategy

The citizens of Vicksburg never wanted secession

demonstrated Lee could obtain supplies on the march

Ignoring or denying the unexplained doesn’t make it go away

Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) pfarr McPherson examines Lincoln's deft navigationby 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