Showing results for "McClellan"
McClellan’s Memorial Day Visit to Antietam
“Only once a year, the comrades of the Grand Army march in sad procession to place flowers on the graves of those who died, side by side with the living, in defence of their country and their homes. This is the only public exhibition of of the veterans of the Grand Army.” So wrote the Boston […]
Read more...1860’s Politics: Why Do We think McClellan Was the “Peace Candidate”? Because the Rebels Thought So
A thoughtful respondent to my recent submission to the ECW blog, “1860’s Politics,” wondered why Gen. George McClellan, Democratic nominee for U. S. president in 1864, waited until after Sherman’s troops captured Atlanta, Sept. 2, 1864, before he announced his position on the war: no peace unless the Rebels agreed to return to the Union. […]
Read more...1860’s Politics: After All These Years, Why Do We Think President McClellan Would Have Given the Rebels an Armistice?
Approaching the 1864 Northern presidential election, students of the Atlanta Campaign tend to focus on how Sherman’s capture of the city on Sept. 2, 1864 helped President Lincoln win re-election. Conversely, we ponder Southerners’ hopes that the Democratic candidate, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, might have beaten Lincoln if the Confederate Army of Tennessee had […]
Read more...“Little Mac’s” Final Moments: The Death of George B. McClellan
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back guest author William Griffith “The startling announcement was made on Thursday [actually Friday] morning that General McClellan was dead,” read New Jersey’s The Orange Journal on Sunday, October 31, 1885, “…very few knew that General McClellan was in the least ill, and no one but his physician, […]
Read more...Seldom Has This Community Been Universally Shocked: New Jersey Newspapers React to the Passing of George McClellan
Today, we are pleased to welcome back guest author William Griffith. This past December, for my twenty-third birthday, I did what any normal person my age would do – or at least I tell myself this – and made a cemetery pilgrimage. My destination this year was Riverview Cemetery located in the heart of Trenton, […]
Read more...USS Monitor: The Half-Charge Myth
Many published descriptions of the battle of Hampton Roads (including my recent book[1]) explain that USS Monitor expended only “half charges” of powder in her 11-inch Dahlgren guns during that legendary fight with CSS Virginia on March 9, 1862. Hindsight then and since spawned several engaging “what ifs” (see previous post), one of which holds […]
Read more...Book Review: My Dearest Lilla: Letters Home From Civil War General Jacob D. Cox
My Dearest Lilla: Letters Home From Civil War General Jacob D. Cox. Edited by Gene Schmiel. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2023. Paperback, 260 pp. $ 34.95. Reviewed by Joseph D. Ricci Over the last decade, Gene Schmiel has contributed greatly to the understanding of one of the Civil War’s most overlooked figures, […]
Read more...Book Review: Decisions of the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign: The Sixteen Critical Decisions that Defined the Operation
Decisions of the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign: The Sixteen Critical Decisions that Defined the Operation. By Robert G. Tanner. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2023. Softcover, 160 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Doug Crenshaw With the publication of Decisions of the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign: Sixteen Critical Decisions that Defined the Operation, historian Robert […]
Read more...
McClellan’s “Attack” On Osman Pasha & The Plevna Defenders
Emerging Civil War welcomes back Frank Jastrzembski An earlier ECW post revealed how General Nelson A. Miles admired the Russo-Turkish War hero, Osman Pasha, for his overall solid leadership qualities, comparing him to General Ulysses S. Grant. George B. McClellan did not hold the same respect for the Ottoman leader. In the postwar period, the […]
Read more...