Too Useful to Sacrifice
Subtitle: Reconsidering George B. Mcclellan S Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781611213041
Subjects: Mcclellan, george brinton, 1826-1885; Maryland campaign, 1862
Description: "The importance of Robert E. Lee's first movement north of the Potomac River in September 1862 is difficult to overstate. After his string of successes in Virginia, a decisive Confederate victory in Maryland or Pennsylvania may well have spun the war in an entirely different direction. Why he and his Virginia army did not find success across the Potomac was due in large measure to the generalship of George B. McClellan, as Steven Stotelmyer ably demonstrates in Too Useful to Sacrifice: Reconsidering George B. McClellan's Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam."--Provided by publisher.