Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) cup the Confederacy was trapped in

the Confederacy was trapped in a static (and slave-based) agrarian economy without federal taxing power or other means of government financing

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Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) cup the Confederacy was trapped inby George C. Rable (Author), T. Michael Parrish (Series Editor) The fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard narrative casting the two as foils, with the Great Emancipator inevitably coming out on top over his supposedly feckless commander. In Conflict of Command, acclaimed Civil War historian George C. Rable rethinks that stance, providing a new