Easton Press: GEORGE B. McCLELLAN: U.S. GENERAL: CIVIL WAR: WAR FOR THE UNION

Description: Easton Press leather edition of George B. McClellan's "The War for the Union: The Soldiers Who Fought It, the Civilians Who Directed It. and the Relations to It and to Them," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Period Photographs, one of the LIBRARY OF MILITARY HISTORY series, published in 1995. Bound in deep hunter green leather, the book has camel tan French moire end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition---SHRINK WRAPPED. George Brinton McClellan, who lived from 1826---1885, was an American military officer and politician. The son of a prominent Philadelphia surgeon, he was the Commanding General of the U.S. Army from November 1861 to March 1862. He was also an engineer and was vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad. A West Point graduate, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican-American War before leaving the U.S. Army to serve as a railway executive until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. Early in the conflict, McClellan was appointed to the rank of major general and played an important role in raising the Army of the Potomac. McClellan organized and led the Union Army in the Peninsula campaign in Southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862. It was the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern theater. Making an amphibious clockwise turning movement around the Confederate Army in northern Virginia, McClellan's forces turned west to move up the Virginia Peninsula, between the James River and York River, landing from Chesapeake Bay, with the Confederate capital, RICHMOND, as their objective. But the emergence of General ROBERT E. LEE to command the Army of Northern Virginia turned the subsequent Seven Days Battles into a Union defeat. McClellan's failure to pursue Lee's army after the strategic Union victory at the Battle of Antietam outside Sharpsburg, Maryland was disastrous. McClellan and President Abraham Lincoln developed a mutual distrust and McClellan was privately dismissed. In the 1864 election, McClellan challenged Lincoln for the Presidency. McClellan later served as governor of New Jersey from 1878---1881. He vigorously defended his Civil War conduct. I offer combined shipping.

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