Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) Section - Calvary Campaign The Emancipation Proclamation is the

The Emancipation Proclamation is the most important document of arguably the greatest president in U

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responsible both for his being hailed as the Great Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient and half-hearted

Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) Section - Calvary Campaign The Emancipation Proclamation is 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