MCCLELLAN -- page 8 of his Military Commission ... "We cannot afford," he says, "a Moscow campaign." How little, when he wrote these lines in January, 1857, did the American officer imagine ...

The authors open with some background on the campaign. The failure of George McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign during the “Seven Days’ Battles,” and his withdrawal from Richmond, coupled with Lincoln’s ...

One of those military operations came to be known General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in the spring and summer of 1862. As general in chief of all Union armies from November 1861 to ...

This conclusion is the perfect capstone to the authors' look at McClellan’s efforts during the campaign, which enabled Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Thorpe and Rossino ...