Report on the Organization and Campaigns of the Army
Item #82014
McCLELLAN, George B. Report on the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac: To which is Added an Account of the Campaign in Western VIrginia, with Plans of Battle-Fields. New York: Sheldon & Company, Publishers, 1864. 480pp. plus four maps (including folding frontispiece). Original brown cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt. Spine slightly sunned, light rubbing. Light foxing, otherwise internally clean. Inscribed by McClellan to Samuel Barlow on front free endpaper (see below). A very good copy. BARLOW SALE 1522 (this copy). SABIN 43018. DORNBUSCH III 1554. NEVINS I, p. 10 (ref). rare and significant presentation copy, inscribed by McClellan on the front free endpaper to "S.L.M. Barlow, With the warm regards of his sincere friend George B. McClellan, March 30 /64." Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow was an accomplished and notable book collector, as well as an Illinois Democrat and a lifelong friend of McClellan's. On a personal level, Barlow even helped McClellan write his acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination and served as his de facto campaign manager, more or less running the campaign while McClellan attempted to distance himself from politics. Barlow was also the publisher of the New York World, a staunchly Democratic newspaper which remained critical of the Lincoln administration throughout the war and did much to promote McClellan's 1864 presidential run. This is the expanded edition of McClellan's official report concerning his operations from July 1861 to November 1862, following the original 1862 Washington edition (of 242 pages) that was issued as...Letter of the Secretary of War, Transmitting Report on the Organization of the Army of the Potomac....The present edition was produced as part of McClellan's 1864 presidential bid. The work contains substantial information about the initial organization of the Army of the Potomac, and has been expanded with additional details of the Peninsular Campaign, the campaign in West Virginia, and his account of the Battle of Antietam. The folding map depicts the battle lines and movements of Antietam; the three single-page maps show McClellan's moves through the peninsula, the siege of Yorktown, and the assault on Richmond. In typical McClellan fashion, despite the fact this began as an official document, the descriptions of the campaigns in this volume are closer to a memo.
Price: $4,000.00