Mr Lincoln's Army - The Odyssey of General George Brinton McClellan and the Army of the Potomac

Doubleday & Co Inc, 1954, Good condition with tired but complete dustwrapper

This is the story of Lincoln's famous Army of the Potomac during the early years of the Civil War, when it was under the command of dashing General George B. McClellan. Clearly a man of destiny, McClellan quickly became obsessed - along with the country and his troops - with the idea that he was divinely chose as the instrument of the Republic's salvation. But he made two great mistakes: he failed to understand the President's problems with respect to the Army, and he gave weight to a caution, born of a real love for his men, which finally put a tragic halt to his military career...