Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) civilians Sommers’s masterpiece

Sommers’s masterpiece

While Federal troops struggled to keep order and sustain a fragile peace

by Arthur Drooker

essential to the story of justice in America

Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) civilians Sommers’s masterpieceby 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