Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) Section - Calvary Campaign After graduating last in the

After graduating last in the West Point class of 1861

Who were these six men

Founded in the 1700s by James Gettys

while also pressing the president to emancipate the country’s slaves and recognize black rights

Knit with Gettysburg applique

Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) Section - Calvary Campaign After graduating last in theby 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