differences with his superiors and poor battlefield performance led to McClellan's dismissal, after which he turned to politics. In the 1864 election, McClellan ran as the Democratic nominee ...

The episode begins with the presidential election of 1864 that sets Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union ...

With the benefit of hindsight we know this but contemporaries were not so privileged. Northerners were war weary because there was little to show for lengthening casualty lists and no end to the ...