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	George B. McClellan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was a Major General of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
		McClellan resigned his commission January 16, 1857, and got into the railroad business, becoming chief engineer of the Illinois Central and then eventually division president of the Ohio and Mississippi.
		McClellan was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1877, serving from 1878 to 1881.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_McClellan (1279 words)

	George McClellan Information - TextSheet.com
		George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 - October 29, 1885) was a Major General of the United States Army during the American Civil War.
		McClellan came within a few miles of Richmond, Virginia in June 1862, and his army repelled an attack at Seven Pines.
		Lincoln then restored Pope's army to McClellan on September 2, 1862, who even after obtaining a copy of Lee's orders dividing his forces, did not move swiftly enough to encounter the Confederates before they were reunited.
	www.medbuster.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/george_mcclellan.html (991 words)

	George B. McClellan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was a Major General of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
		McClellan resigned his commission January 16, 1857, and got into the railroad business, becoming of the Illinois Central and then eventually division president of the.
		In 1872, he was named the president of the, and became involved in the South Improvement Company rate-rebate scheme of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/George_McClellan (1290 words)

	George B. McClellan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		McClellan believed from military intelligence that Johnston 's army was twice the size of his own (in reality McClellan's army outnumbered Johnston 's five to three).
		McClellan was asked to resign his position as commanding officer of the Army of the Potomac on November 9, 1862.
		McClellan comments of the bravery and nobility of his army during the previous days' fighting and asks for the bishop's prayers for himself and his men.
	www.nav.cc.tx.us /library/civilwar/finding_aids/m_r/mcclellan.htm (2003 words)

	George Brinton McClellan
		McClellan's army fell back after dark to Malvern Hill, where the last of the trains and all the reserve artillery had arrived in the afternoon, and where the last great battle of the peninsula was to be fought.
		McClellan's plan was for Hooker to cross and attack the enemy's left, supported if necessary by Sumner and Franklin, and upon the apparent success of that attack Burnside was to cross the bridge in his front, press the enemy's right, passing if possible to the south and rear of Sharpsburg.
		McClellan then followed, advancing his army between Longstreet's corps and the main body under Lee, and halted at Warrenton to recruit, while the powers at Washington, withholding all praise for what he and his army had achieved, were scolding him for his delay.
	www.famousamericans.net /georgebrintonmcclellan (5948 words)

	General George Brinton McClellan
		McClellan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 3, 1826.
		Upon graduation, George McClellan was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.
		George McClellan had proven himself to be an efficient organizer with strong personal magnetism.
	www.nps.gov /anti/mccl-bio.htm (493 words)

	George McClellan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		George McClellan, the son of a surgeon, he was born in Philadelphia on 3rd December, 1826.
		McClellan was appointed to the staff of General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War (1846-48) and won three brevets for gallant conduct.
		During the campaign McClellan declared the war a "failure" and urged "immediate efforts for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the states, or other peaceable means, to the end that peace may be restored on the basis of the federal Union of the States".
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWmcclellan.htm (3313 words)

	GEORGE BRINTON McCLELLAN - Original Member of the Aztec Club of 1847
		McClellan was next engaged in the Skirmish of Amazoque, May 14, 1847; Battle of Contreras, August 19-20, 1847; and Battle of Churubusco, August 20, 1847.
		McClellan received the Thanks of Congress, July 16, 1861, for "the series of brilliant and decisive victories" achieved by his army over the Rebels, "on the battlefields of Western Virginia".
		McClellan insisted that his failure was due to a lack of support from Washington and, again overestimating the enemy's forces, he refused to reassume the offensive until given reinforcements which the Administration and Henry W. Halleck, by then General-in-Chief, were unwilling to provide.
	www.aztecclub.com /bios/mcclellan.htm (1317 words)

	George Washington Appears to General McClellan
		George Washington was not only adept at crossing rivers in the dead of winter, he was able to cross over from the other side and appear from the dead.
		General McClellan had his faults and was eventually dismissed by Lincoln, but at this moment he had the spiritual receptiveness to be able to receive the Presence of George Washington who was vitally concerned for the future of this great country.
		McClellan was aware of the being that stood beside him, but could only identify it as a vapor having the vague outline of a man.
	www.reversespins.com /mcclellan.html (1027 words)

	McClellan, George Brinton. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In May, 1861, McClellan was made commander of the Dept. of the Ohio and a major general in the regular army.
		In 1864, McClellan was the Democratic candidate for President, although he rejected the party’s peace platform.
		McClellan resigned from the army on the day of the election and afterward traveled extensively with his family in Europe.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mc/McClellaG.html (454 words)

	George McClellan
		George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 - October 29, 1885) was a Major General of the United States during the American Civil War.
		Lincoln then restored Pope's army to McClellan, who even after obtaining a copy of Lee's orders dividing his forces, did not move swiftly enough to encounter the Confederates before they were reunited.
		His son, George Brinton McClellan, (23 November 1865-30 November 1940) served as Mayor of New York City from 1904 to 1909.
	www.termsdefined.net /ge/george-mcclellan.html (1088 words)

	George Brinton McClellan
		Lincoln made McClellan commander of the Army of the East (later the Army of the Potomac) and later general in chief of all Union Armies.
		George McClellan was the best general that didn’t like to fight that this country has ever produced.
		McClellan could have badly damaged the Army of Northern Virginia, but was slow to move and really his subordinates beat off the attacks.
	ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/features/people/bio.cfm?PID=49 (1334 words)

	TJU Archives: Finding Aids - George McClellan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		George McClellan received his MD degree in 1819 from the University of Pennsylvania.
		McClellan held the chair of surgery at Jefferson until the Board of Trustees reorganized the faculty in 1838.
		George McClellan died suddenly on 9 May 1847 from an ulcerative perforation of the small intestine.
	jeffline.tju.edu /SML/archives/collections/finding_aids/mcclellan.html (573 words)

	General George McClellan by Toan Tran-Phu
		George Brinton McClellan would definitely be the landslide victor of the worst general of the American Civil War.
		On December 3, 1826, George Brinton McClellan was born in Philadelphia to a prominent Philadelphia surgeon.
		It was mostly McClellan’s fault that the Union did not win easily within the first two years.
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	"We Need A General!": The appointment of George B. McClellan
		George B. McClellan arrived in Washington on July 26, 1861, with the knowledge that the President had an important assignment for him.
		George McClellan wasted no time to show that he was up to the assignment in which he was charged.
		McClellan appointed a chief of artillery to expand the poorly equipped batteries that had just 30 guns, a medical director to organize hospitals and proper sanitation management, and a quartermaster general to oversee the requisition of supplies.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/american_civil_war_retired/14480 (800 words)

	The McClellan Saddle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Model 1859 McClellan, however, was by far the most common saddle used by Union horse soldiers.
		In addition to the new saddle developed by McClellan, a number of other styles were considered including the standard service Grimsley, the Hope, Campbell, and a Jones "adjustable tree" saddle.
		The Model 1904 and Model 1913 McClellan saddles were again produced in large numbers during World War I, and remained in service until the Army disbanded its mounted units at the dawn of World War II.
	www.bufordsboys.com /McClellanSaddle.htm (747 words)

	General George B. McClellan
		McClellan was born in Philadelphia, December 3, 1826, and educated at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.
		At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was commissioned major general in the regular army and, after the First Battle of Bull Run, commanded the Army of the Potomac, the troops in and around Washington, D.C. In November 1861 he was appointed commander in chief of the Union army.
		McClellan served as governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881, and he died in Orange, New Jersey, October 29, 1885.
	americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/civwar/mclellan.html (364 words)

	War between the States - The Young Napoleon - General George McClellan
		In 1857, George McClellan resigned his captain's commission to become chief engineer of the Illinois Central Railroad.
		George B McClellan, a youthful victor in western Virginia, was ordered to come take command of the army which had suffered such a defeat under General McDowell.
		Major General George B. McClellan was officially put in command by President Lincoln of the Federal Division of the Potomac, "The Army of Northern Virginia."
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	George Brinton McClellan, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army
		McClellan, George Brinton (November 23, 1865 - November 30, 1940), politician and university professor, was the older of two children and the only son of General George Brinton McClellan and Mary Ellen (Marcy) McClellan.
		His grandfather, Dr. George McClellan, was a prominent Philadelphia anatomist and surgeon; his father was the most controversial, if not most effective, Union general in the Civil War.
		Although McClellan was a man of considerable ability and even distinction, his rapid rise in politics was due almost entirely to Tammany's desire to capitalize on his famous name.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /gbmcclel.htm (1326 words)

	Jefferson Davis, George McClellan and the War Department's Pacific Railroad Explorations and Surveys of 1853-54.
		A second party, commanded by Captain McClellan, under the direction of Governor Stevens, was directed to proceed at once to Puget sound, and explore the passes of the Cascade range, meeting the eastern party between that range and the Rocky mountains.
		McClellan, already under orders to report to Governor Stevens, is assigned to duty on this survey according to his brevet rank.
		Every facility will be given to Captain McClellan and his party in the discharge of their difficult and important duties, and much is expected from the hearty co-operation and assistance of the officers and troops stationed in the Territory.
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	George Brinton McClellan Biography
		During the rest of his year overseas he travelled widely and altered the Prussian and Hungarian cavalry saddles into the "McClellan Saddle" that was used until the army abolished its mounted arm.
		McClellan then planned an advance on Richmond by way of the Peninsula between the James and York Rivers.
		McClellan attacked piecemeal and his attacks failed to crush Lee who was heavily outnumbered with his back to the Potomac River.
	www.civilwarhome.com /macbio.htm (1003 words)

	George B. McClellan
		George McClellan was a native of Philadelphia and attended the University of Pennsylvania.
		In 1855-56, McClellan was on assignment in the Crimea to study European warfare and submitted an exhaustive report on the siege of Sebastopol.
		In 1864 McClellan received the party's nomination and, early on, appeared to be in excellent position to defeat Lincoln in the Election of 1864.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h116.html (766 words)

	AllRefer.com - George Brinton McClellan (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		George Brinton McClellan 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War, b.
		The collapse of this campaign after the Seven Days battles was charged by many to his overcaution.
		McClellan's candidacy caused the administration much uneasiness, but President Lincoln was reelected by a substantial majority.
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	Major General George McClellan - The Young Napoleon - Union commander at Antietam and in the Penisula Campaign
		McClellan and the Army of the Potomac set out for the Peninsula in March, and the Union advance guard reached Yorktown by April 5th.
		McClellan refused to take the advice of several of his officers to move at once to seize possession of the thinly defended city of Richmond.
		Safely entrenched in his fortified camp, McClellan began calling for more troops and condemning the War Department and the President himself, blaming them for his defeat and their failure to adequately provide for his army.
	www.swcivilwar.com /mcclellan.html (1475 words)

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