Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) Section-Gettysburg 3rd Day Nellie Sedgwick

Nellie Sedgwick

Her struggles began as a teenager and it took 15 years to win her freedom

He returned home and committed suicide before his fortieth birthday

Belle Turner must help run her family's plantation while she tries to continue living as a genteel Southern woman

Rable focuses on the political fallout of the fighting rather than the tactical details

Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (George C. Rable - CH) Section-Gettysburg 3rd Day Nellie Sedgwickby 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