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Historical person
George B. McClellan is represented in the linked historical fiction through crime, espionage and covert power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and military command and battlefield decision-making. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In Bernard Cornwell’s Copperhead, his investigation is entangled with divided families, political influence and rival officers as George B. McClellan approaches Richmond and Joseph E. Johnston gives way to Robert E. Lee. John Jakes’s North and South places George B. McClellan within a narrative shaped by social change and the pressures of ordinary life, political ambition and government, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. Other novels featuring George B. McClellan include John Jakes’s Love and War, Bernard Cornwell’s The Bloody Ground, and John Jakes’s On Secret Service.
Series
The Starbuck Chronicles follow Nathaniel Starbuck, the son of a prominent Boston abolitionist preacher, after chance and personal loyalty draw him into Confederate service at the outbreak of the American Civil War. Serving first in the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must prove himself among soldiers who distrust his Northern…
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The North and South Trilogy follows the Mains of South Carolina and the Hazards of Pennsylvania, two families joined when Orry Main and George Hazard become friends at West Point. Their bond survives the Mexican–American War and years of sectional conflict, but slavery, secession and family pressure place…
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Standalone books
