The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...

Exactly a month before, Scott, McClellan, President Abraham Lincoln and a parade of other dignitaries had attended the funeral at Congressional Cemetery of Gen. George C. Gibson, an old friend of ...

During the American Civil War, a portion of the area that is the McClellan Heights neighborhood in Davenport today was a Union Army training camp. It also was the spot ...

Later that month, in a missive to his future replacement, McClellan, Scott adjusted his estimate and called for a slightly larger force—roughly 80,000 men, divided into two columns, one ...

Last year Tickner & Fields published Stephen Sears’ “George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon.” They have now released his companion volume to that definitive biography. Sears… ...

SEATTLE - Scott McClellan served as George W. Bush's Press Secretary from 2003 to 2006, and had to deal with a number crises, including the Iraq War.Often times, he was facing an unfriendly press ...

Other historians (and those Civil War buffs mentioned previously) know little of McClellan’s failure in the West and have spent decades trying to understand the eventful years after he phoned in ...

Imagine, for a moment, that it is 1862 and you are Gen. George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, the Union’s premier fighting force. The Confederate Army, led by Robert E. Lee ...

In the previous Civil War column, we talked about the genius of author Bruce Catton and how he brought his readers into the Civil War. We also discussed Gen. George B. McClellan and his superb abil… ...

Who Did He Serve? Scott McClellan on Bush, bipartisanship, loyalty, and duty By Richard Whittaker, Fri., June 20, 2008 ...

You can tell the Democratic presidential race is all but over. Cable television has returned to 24/7 coverage of whether President Bush lied us into war in Iraq. The latest peg is the Texan-bites ...

Last year Tickner & Fields published Stephen Sears’ “George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon.” They have now released his companion volume to that definitive biography. Sears… ...