President Abraham Lincoln, amid the most turbulent administration and deadliest conflict in American history, defeated bitter personal rival and former Civil War Gen. George McClellan to win re ...

George McClellan to run against President Abraham Lincoln, who was seeking a second term. At the time, the Democrats were split between a pro-war camp, which included McClellan, and the anti-war ...

2011-07-30T17:57:57-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/6b9/299477-m.jpgJohn Waugh spoke about the complex relationship between President Abraham Lincoln and General ...

In the 1864 election, McClellan ran as the Democratic nominee against President Lincoln. George Brinton McClellan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated second in his class from ...

In Lincoln and McClellan: The Troubled Partnership Between a President and His General, Waugh paints a mythlike, historical narrative. Its central character, George McClellan, suffers from a ...

Award winning author George Rable concentrates on the relationship between ... Lee's army in Maryland following Antietam. Lincoln believed McClellan was someone who could organize an army and lead it ...

The Discussion of Gen. McClellan's Merits--Speech of Mr. Harris--Gen. George W. Morgan Defends the Principle of Arbitrary Arrests.; A Letter from Franklin Pierce. Music at Central Park.

It was the summer of 1864, and Abraham Lincoln believed his campaign for ... but if the Democratic nominee, George McClellan, was in fact the choice of the electorate, then so be it.

Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan used this portrait in his presidential bid against President Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Like several other Civil War generals, McClellan served at the Vancouver ...

When this photo was taken on Oct. 4, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln was visiting with Union Gen. George McClellan at his headquarters near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Lincoln would later remove ...

When Lincoln first ran, many who were opposed ... The “War Democrats” nominated General George McClellan, a West Point graduate who had led the Union army to several victories.

John Waugh spoke about the complex relationship between President Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan from the early days of the Ci… read more John Waugh spoke about the complex ...