President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance have been highly visible in recent weeks at graduation ceremonies and ...

On May 23, the Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg was treated to an informative program by Kevin Pawlak and Dan Welch, co-authors of “Never Such A Campaign: The Battle ...

Yet the man remains eternally fascinating, as David Von Drehle's Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year (Henry Holt, 465 pp., * * * ½ out of four) proves.

Eric Anderson as Gen. George B. McClellan in La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere musical “3 Summers of Lincoln.” (Rich Soublet II) ...

Lincoln endured the insults of cabinet members - Edwin Stanton, his secretary of war, called him a "gorilla" and referred to him as an imbecile. General George McClellan despised Lincoln and ...

On Nov. 8, 1864, those soldiers from Ohio cast 194 votes for Abraham Lincoln, and none for George McClellan. Lincoln beat McClellan and served his second term as president.

More accurately, this photograph should be titled Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan and Staff. Dissatisfied with General McClellan’s nonresponsiveness after Antietam—he did not pursue Robert E. Lee ...

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.

McClellan wanted someone who was young and would help him win the large and populous border state of Ohio and chose a 39-year-old senator from Ohio named George H. Pendleton.

Lincoln realized that, short of a major battlefield victory, he had little chance of reelection in 1864. Kate was no idle spectator to this. She knew Lincoln and McClellan.

Lincoln and other national Republicans won big. The President tallied 221 electoral college votes to McClellan’s 21 and won the popular vote by a margin of roughly 10 percent.