cover image The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865

The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865

George B. McClellan. Da Capo Press, $26 (672pp) ISBN 978-0-306-80471-7

These military dispatches and candid personal letters of Union general McClellan reveal gross overestimates of Confederate strength and contempt for President Lincoln. (Apr.)