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Title
Major
General
George
B
.
McClellan
Print
Carte
de
visite
,
profile
Subject
McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military officers--Union.
Time Period
1860s
Description
1862
Carte
de
visite
of
General
McClellan
in
profile
.
George
B
.
McClellan
was a
prominent
nineteenth
century
American
military
and
political
leader
. He was
born
on
December
3
,
1826
, in
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
. In
1842
,
McClellan
received
an
appointment
to the
United
States
Military
Academy
at
West
Point
. He
graduated
in
1846
,
ranking
second
in his
class
.
McClellan
resigned
his
army
commission
in
1857
. to
become
involved
in the
railroad
industry
.
Using
his
training
at
West
Point
in
engineering
,
McClellan
served
as an
engineer
for the
Ohio
&
Mississippi
Railroad
and the
Illinois
Central
Railroad
.
During
this
time
, he
lived
primarily
in
Cincinnati
,
Ohio
. With the
beginning
of the
American
Civil
War
in
April
1861
,
McClellan
reenlisted
in the
United
States
Army
and
played
an
important
role
in
Ohio's
early
defense
.
Early
in the
war
,
General
McClellan
enhanced
his
reputation
as a
skillful
military
leader
and was
appointed
as
commander
of the
Army
of the
Potomac
by
President
Abraham
Lincoln
.
After
an
unsuccessful
assault
on
Richmond
,
Virginia
and
failure
to
defeat
General
Lee’s
forces
in the
Battle
of
Antietam
,
Lincoln
remove
him from his
command
in
November
1862
.
McClellan
never
received
another
military
command
and
later
became
one
of
Lincoln’s
chief
critics
. In
1864
, the
Democratic
Party
selected
McClellan
as its
presidential
candidate
to
oppose
Lincoln’s
reelection
.
Lincoln
won
the
election
by an
overwhelming
margin
.
McClellan
resigned
his
commission
in the
United
States
Army
and
later
became
the
governor
of
New
Jersey
from
1878
to
1881
. He
died
on
October
29
,
1885
.
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picture
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
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Image Height
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Image Width
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Date created
2011-02-28
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