Waugh's "Lincoln and McClellan" promised to be a study of their relationship that broke new ground. By extensively using McClellan's letters to his wife Nelly, I believe it accomplished what it set out to do.
The reader is also treated to a glimpse of the two men working together before the war. In 1857, McClellan was Vice President of the Illinois Central RR and Abraham Lincoln was the line's attorney. It might be said that Lincoln the lawyer, in fact worked for McClellan.
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