George B. McClellan and Civil War History

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General George McClellan 's Leadership

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General George McClellan 's Leadership

General George McClellan was the Union Army 's first commander in the early part of the American Civil War . Because of how the Union army was faring under his leadership , McClellan was regarded as an ineffective general , if not a failure . As a result of how he commanded the Union army and prosecuted the war , he was replaced by President Abraham Lincoln until he found a much more abler leader in General Ulysses S

Grant who carried the Union to surrender of the Confederacy and the end of the civil war in 1865 . This study intends to look if General McClellan has been fairly judged ' by historians and if his incompetence was valid

In his book , George B . McClellan and Civil War History , Thomas Rowland attempts to give an impartial view of McClellan . Based on other accounts he has read from other historians who discussed McClellan history has not been so kind to the hapless general . McClellan had served as one of the benchmarks on how modern-day American generals would take action such as the case of General Norman Schwarzkopf during Operation Desert Shield /Storm and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell in response to the troubles in the former Yugoslavia . The reason why McClellan was brought up in comparing him with these two modern-day counterparts was both nearly made the same mistakes...