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  McClernand, John Alexander
McClernand established the first Democratic journal ever published in Shawneetown; and the same year re-commenced the practice of law, which continued with success until he was elected to U.S. Congress in 1843.
McClernand was chosen, by the legislature as commissioner and treasurer, which duties he so faithfully discharged that complimentary resolutions respecting his services were passed in a number of public meetings held at different points.
McClernand delivered a speech in the House, on the Union and the phantom, "No Coercion," that for historical research, comprehensiveness and exhaustive argument, has few equals in the annals of parliamentary literature.
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 John McClernand (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Alexander McClernand (May 30, 1812 – September 20, 1900) was an American lawyer, politician, and a Union general in the American Civil War.
McClernand served as Douglas's ally and liaison in the House during the Compromise of 1850 debates and would later serve as one of his campaign managers in the divisive Democratic presidential nomination convention held in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860.
McClernand was district judge of the Sangamon (Illinois) District in 1870–73, and was president of the Democratic National Convention in 1876.
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John McClernand nurtured a long career as a public servant, serving as a legislator, a general, and a judge.
McClernand was given a brigade in Missouri, serving under General Ulysses S. Grant, and performed well at the engagement at Belmont, Missouri, where the Union forces surprised the Confederates and pushed them from their positions.
After McClernand’s Red River raid, he was put in command of the lead corps of Grant’s army marching down the west bank of the Mississippi to cross the river and assault and besiege Vicksburg.
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 John Alexander McClernand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Alexander McClernand (May 30, 1812 – September 20, 1900) was an American lawyer, politician, and a Union general in the American Civil War.
McClernand served as Douglas's ally and liaison in the House during the Compromise of 1850 debates and would later serve as one of his campaign managers in the divisive Democratic presidential nomination convention held in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860.
McClernand was district judge of the Sangamon (Illinois) District in 1870–73, and was president of the Democratic National Convention in 1876.
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McClernand Grade School is currently a national historic landmark and a living monument to the man who donated the land and his life to the public.
John Alexander McClernand was one Illinois most colorful and heroic men and should be remember by his country as one of its proudest patriots.
McClernand served as Colonel of the 4th U.S. Infantry in the PhilippineInsurrection and was in military adviser to the Japanese Army durning itswar with Russia.
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John Alexander McClernand served the State of Illinois and the United States in many ways.
McClernand, under the direction of General Ulysses S. Grant, was able to take the fort without a struggle after Federal gunboats began a bombardment of the confederate stronghold.
McClernand moved his troops south along the Tennessee River and camped at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee in April of 1862.
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 John Alexander McClernand (1812-1900)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Alexander McClernand (May 30, 1812 ­ September 20, 1900) was an American soldier and lawyer.
Although General McClernand was not popular amongst his peers, there can be little doubt that McClernand's enthusiasm was essential in rallying Union support from Southern Illinois.
McClernand died on September 20, 1900 in Springfield, Illinois, and is buried in the Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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 Amazon.com: Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform: Books: Richard L. Kiper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although a political general, McClernand proved himself on the battlefield until he ran afoul of Ulysses S. Grant and was relieved of his command in 1863 during the Vicksburg Campaign.
McClernand's important role as one of Stephen Douglas's chief lieutenants in Illinois and in the U.S. House is lightly skimmed over.
McClernand played an important role in the Compromise of 1850 and the shattering of the Democratic Party, from the Buchanan-Douglas showdown to the 1860 presidential convention in Charleston.
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 John Alexander McClernand
The American soldier and lawyer John Alexander McClernand was born in Breckinridge county, Kentucky, on the 30th of May 1812.
On the 17th, Grant, after receiving the opinion of Admiral Foote and General Sherman that McClernand was unfit, united a part of his own troops with those of McClernand and assumed command in person, and three days later ordered McClernand back to Milliken's Bend.
He was district judge of the Sangamon (Illinois) District in 1870-1873, and was president of the Mational Democratic Convention in 1876.
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 Victor VIFQUAIN
These regiments were recruited and organized with the assistance of general John A. McClernand, powerful major politicking democratic of the State and second in command of the Army of Tennessee of the Grant General.
John Alexander McClernand was one of these many politicking Generals who had been named with high commands at the beginning of the war, because of their popularity near the voters, but whose military engineering was far from being with the height of their political "weight".
Une conférence au sommet réunissant McClernand, Sherman et l'amiral Porter conclut qu'il devenait urgent de tenter quelque chose pour remonter le moral des troupes, battues par les Confédérés et les éléments.
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 McClernand, John Alexander - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
MCCLERNAND, JOHN ALEXANDER [McClernand, John Alexander] 1812-1900, Union general in the American Civil War, b.
In Grant's successful advance on Vicksburg, McClernand led the 13th Corps, fighting at Port Gibson and Champion's Hill, but he was subsequently relieved (June) for insubordination.
Restored to his command in Feb., 1864, he resigned his commission in November and returned to the legal profession.
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 AllRefer.com - John Alexander McClernand (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
John Alexander McClernand 1812–1900, Union general in the American Civil War, b.
Through political influence he superseded William T. Sherman (Jan. 2, 1863) in command of the river expedition in the Vicksburg campaign.
After McClernand : upon Sherman's suggestion : had successfully assaulted Arkansas Post (Jan. 11), Ulysses S. Grant assumed his command.
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 Major General John Alexander McClernand : Richard L. Kiper
John A. McClernand was a leading Democratic congressman from Illinois who in 1861 became a brigadier general in the Union army.
Although a "political general," he proved himself on the battlefield until he ran afoul of Ulysses S. Grant and was relieved of his command of the Thirteenth Corps in 1863 during the Vicksburg campaign.
He has taught at West Point, at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and is presently on the faculty of Kansas City Kansas Community College.
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 John Alexander McClernand
John Alexander McClernand was born May 30, 1812 and died on September 20, 1900.
McClernand was a Union General during the Civil War.
A congressman before the war, John McClernand was a "political general" who proved himself on the battlefield until he ran afoul of Gen.
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friction between McClernand and his colleagues; he undoubtedly intrigued for the removal of Grant; it was Grant's opinion that at See also:
Lincoln, who saw the importance of conciliating a leader of the Illinois War-Democrats, restored him to his command in 1864, but McClernand resigned in November of that year.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for McClernand,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
McClernand, John Alexander MCCLERNAND, JOHN ALEXANDER [McClernand, John Alexander] 1812-1900, Union general in the American Civil War, b.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "McClernand," at HighBeam.
Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform.(Book Review)
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McClernand’s tepid per-formance at Champion Hill, Kiper believes, was partially the result of Grant’s many telegrams urging caution.
While Kiper concludes that McClernand took good care of his men and was courageous in battle, he finds him ex-tremely ambitious and consequently militarily insubordinate.
John F. Marszalek is pro-fes-sor of history, Mississippi State University, and author or editor of eight books in-clud-ing Court Martial: A Black Man in American (1972); The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 18611865 (1979); and Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order (1993).
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 McCLERNAND, John Alexander (1812-1900) Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
“From Vandalia to Vicksburg: The Political and Military Career of John A. McClernand.” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1955.
Address of John A. McClernand, of Illinois, to his constituents.
McClernand, of Illinois, in review of the internal or domestic policy of the present administration of the government.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mcclelland to Mcclory
Maryland state house of delegates District 38; elected 1998.
McClernand, John Alexander (1812-1900) — also known as John A. McClernand — of Shawneetown,
U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1843-51, 1859-61 (2nd District 1843-51, 6th District 1859-61); general in the Union Army during the Civil War; state court judge in Illinois; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
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 John Y. Simon
John Y. Simon received a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1961 and came to SIUC in 1964.
Foreword to James Pickett Jones, "Black Jack": John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era (1967; reprinted, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995).
John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: an Autobiography (1913; reprinted Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997).
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 Major General John Alexander McClernand : Politician in Uniform (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Mcclernand, John Alexander - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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McClernand, John Alexander, 1812-1900, Union general in the American Civil War, b.
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MCCOOK (Alexander McDowell, brother of Daniel MCCOOK and Robert L. Photo 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12
MCCOOK (Edward Moody, cousin of Alexander McDowell MCCOOK, Robert L. and Daniel MCCOOK)(1833-1909)
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War Service May 1861 Capt. in 1st Kansas, Wilson's Creek, July 1862 Col. of 52nd Ohio, commanded a brigade at Perryville, Chickamauga, commanded 3rd Bde/2nd Divn/XIV Corps at Chattanooga, Knoxville, Atlanta campaign, Kennesaw Mountain (mw), July 1864 appointed Brig.
Notes Brother of Alexander and Robert McCook, and cousin of Edward McCook
Notes John Gibbon believed that he gave more attention to his political career than he should have.
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