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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

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… ...

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… ...