George B. McClellan

Autor von The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865

10+ Werke 163 Mitglieder 2 Rezensionen

Über den Autor

Born in Philadelphia on December 3, 1826, George B. McClellan graduated from West Point in 1846 before serving in the Mexican War. At the start of the Civil War, McClellan was put in a position of leadership and after a successful campaign in Virginia he was given command of the Army of Potomac, mehr anzeigen one of the Union's strongest armies. He led the Peninsular campaign with almost 100,000 troops under his command, marching toward Richmond. weniger anzeigen

Werke von George B. McClellan

Beliebt Zuletzt

The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865 (1989) 84 Exemplare

McClellan's Own Story (1887) 63 Exemplare

Mexican War Diary of George B. McClellan (The American Scene: Comments and Commentators) (1972) 4 Exemplare

The oligarchy of Venice, an essay (2010) 3 Exemplare

Report on the Organizations and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 3 Exemplare

Campaign in Western Virginia (2007) 2 Exemplare

A Guide to the McClellan Collection of German and Austrian Porcelain (1946) 1 Exemplar

The Life Campaigns and Public Services of General McClellan (2009) 1 Exemplar

Letter of the Secretary of war, transmitting report on the organization of the Army of the Potomac, and of its… 1 Exemplar

Manual of Bayonet Exercises Prepared for the Army of the United States ((facsimile reprint of 1862 original)) 1 Exemplar

Informationen zu Werken

Zugehörige Werke

The Civil War: The First Year Told By Those Who Lived It (2011) — Mitwirkender — 240 Exemplare

The Civil War: The Second Year Told By Those Who Lived It (2012) — Mitwirkender — 172 Exemplare

Getagged

1864 Election (1) Amerikanische Geschichte (7) Amerikanischer Bürgerkrieg (7) Antietam (1) Austrian Porcelain (1) biografisch (1) Biographie (10) Biographie/Memoiren (5) braggadocio (1) Briefe (3) Bürgerkrieg (33) Bürgerkriegszeit (2) Casey_Silas (1) Corps of Engineers (1) Eastern Theater (1) ER03 (1) Erstausgabe (2) General McClellan (1) Generäle (2) George B. McClellan (3) George McClellan (2) German porcelain (1) Geschichte (9) Kindle CW Biography (2) Larmoyanz (1) Letters Union (1) Mansfield_Joseph (1) McClellan (4) Memoiren (4) Mexikanisch-Amerikanischer Krieg (3) Militär (2) Militärgeschichte (8) Offizier (1) Reading Room/ Shelf E /Row 5 (1) SA-4-28 (1) Sachbuch (2) Union letters and diaries (1) V-5 (1) Winkel (2) Österreich (1)

Tag-Übersetzung eingeschaltet

Wissenswertes

Geschlecht: male

Mitglieder

Rezensionen

The Civil War papers of George B. McClellan … von George Brinton McClellan

Little Mac was a very good trainer of troops, and his men loved him. I think he created one of the best peace-time armies ever. It was the Army of the Potomac. But it wasn't the army that the USA needed in 1862.
His army defended itself very well in the Peninsula but failed to launch a good offensive at Antietam. Thus Mac and Hooker remain the two biggest disappointments in the War in the East.
This collection of letters is a considerable addition to the scholarship on the Civil War, but the imputation has been made that Sears had already passed his opinion on MacClellan in his book, "The Landscape turned Red." Worth reading, but there's always that suspicion the selection might be a bit skewed to reinforce Sears' other works.… (mehr)

Gekennzeichnet

DinadansFriend | 1 weitere Rezension | Jun 19, 2015 |

The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan… von Stephen W. Sears

DEN

Gekennzeichnet

Earl_Dunn | 1 weitere Rezension | Aug 28, 2006 |

Mehr Rezensionen ansehen