McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union, the Soldiers Who Fought It, the Civilians Who Directed It, and His Relations to It and to Them [Shoulder Strap Edition]

xiv, 678 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles & decorations. General George B. McClellan's posthumously published account of his military career during the American Civil War. McClellan organized the Army of the Potomac, and was extremely popular among the troops, but often performed poorly in important tactical situations. James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, denounces him as nearly traitorous for numerous examples of hesitation at critical stages of conflict (though other historians disagree). Ulysses S. Grant called him, 'one of the mysteries of the war.'