| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
the failure of moderation in the struggle for the Union |
| 作者: |
RafuseEthan Sepp, 1968- |
| 其他團體作者: |
Project Muse |
| 出版地: |
Bloomington, Ind. |
| 出版者: |
Indiana University Press; |
| 出版年: |
c2005 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource (xiv, 525 p.)ill., maps. : |
| 標題: |
Generals - Biography - United States - |
| 標題: |
Command of troops - History - 19th century - |
| 標題: |
Strategy - History - 19th century - |
| 標題: |
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - |
| 標題: |
McClellan - George Brinton - Military leadership - |
| 標題: |
McClellan - George Brinton - |
| 電子資源: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253006141/ |
| 附註: |
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE |
| 摘要註: |
This biography of the controversial Union general George B. McClellan examines the influencesand political antecedents that shaped his behavior on the battlefield, behavior that so frustrated Lincoln and others in Washington that he was removed from his command soon after the Union loss at Antietam. Rather than take sides in the controversy, Ethan S. Rafuse finds in McClellan's politics and his desire to restore sectional harmony ample explanation for his actions. Rafuse sheds new light on the general who believed in the rule of reason and moderation, who sought a policy of conciliation with the South, and who wanted to manage the North's military resources in a way that would imposerational order on the battlefield |
| ISBN: |
9780253006141electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0253006147electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780253006110pbk. |
| 內容註: |
"Traditions and associations ... were all on the side of the old Whig Party" -- "I can do as well as anyone in both my studies and my military duties" -- Political realignment -- "A strong Democrat of the Stephen A. Douglas school" -- To kill secession -- "A new and strange position" -- Supreme command -- "You have no idea of the pressure brought to bear here" -- "What do you think of the science of generalship?" -- ThePeninsula clmpaign -- "I do not like the ... turn that affairs are taking" -- "He has acted badly" -- "To meet the necessities of the moment"-- "The most terrible battle"-- "It is my duty to submit to the presdt's proclamation & quietly continue doing my duty" -- The last clmpaign |