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How A “man Of Such Promise” Failed
On the first page of Conflict of Command, George Rable posits, “People have largely made up their mind about George McClellan—and not in the general’s favor; nor do they seem amenable to rethinking their position.” He then spends 336 pages essentiall
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The Horseshoe Man
En route to the embattled national capital of Washington, D.C., soldiers from Wisconsin had stopped briefly in Pittsburgh, Pa. Describing his impressions of the city in a letter, one of the volunteers declared, “You can smell smoke, feel smoke & I wi
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