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Editor’s Note: This is the third post in a three-part essay on George B. McClellan.  If you haven’t read Part 1 and Part 2, do so now! The men in the ranks hold varied views.  For the AoNV, this was the first great bloodletting, the price of victory has been high and some of the […]

Editor’s Note: This is the second post in a three-part essay on George B. McClellan.  If you haven’t read Part 1, do so now! Next, CSA Major General John B. Magruder does an outstanding job convincing everyone that Pinkerton’s estimates are correct.  Historians dismiss Magruder’s work as poor performance by McClellan.  However, using entrenchments, bugle […]

Editor’s Note: This is the first post in a three-part essay on George B. McClellan. McClellan has come down to us as a poor general, a vain man with possibly Pro Southern leanings.  An Illustration of the contradictions in the man is in his running as the Democratic candidate for President in 1864.  A platform […]