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McClellan's trainer & family admitted that McClellan was involved with fighting pitbulls, and on one occasion had used tape to bind the jaws of a Labrador shut and allowing his pitbull dogs to kill the Labrador.
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McClellan's writings after the war were typical of many Northerners: " I confess to a prejudice in favor of my own race, & can't learn to like the odor of either Billy goats or niggers.
During McClellan's absence, Sumner directed the inconclusive battle, which failed to impede the Confederate withdrawal up the Peninsula, and McClellan wrote to his wife, " Sumner had proved that he was even a greater fool than I had supposed & had come within an ace of having us defeated.
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McClellan's family flew to be by his side, and later he was flown back to his home country.
In December 2011, McClellan's family announced they were putting Gerald's WBC world title belts to pay for his continuing round-the-clock care and adapt his house for his changing medical needs and avoid putting him into a nursing home.
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Lincoln insisted on holding some of McClellan's troops in defense of the capital ; McClellan, who consistently overestimated the strength of Confederate troops, blamed this decision for the ultimate failure of the Peninsula Campaign.
Lincoln removed McClellan as general-in-chief and appointed Henry Wager Halleck in March 1862, after McClellan's " Harrison's Landing Letter ", in which he offered unsolicited political advice to Lincoln urging caution in the war effort.
The Justices James McClellan and William Savage met in McClellan's residence about three miles ( 5 km ) southeast of Peculiar on September 14, 1835.
The Army adopted McClellan's cavalry manual and also his design for a saddle, the " McClellan Saddle ", which he claimed to have seen used by Hussars in Prussia and Hungary.
Historian and biographer Stephen W. Sears has called McClellan's actions " essentially sound " if he had been as outnumbered as he believed, but McClellan in fact rarely had less than a two-to-one advantage over his opponents in 1861 and 1862.
* Kaneaster Hodges, Jr., appointed to succeed John McClellan as United States Senator upon McClellan's death in 1977
" In May 2012, aware of the seriousness of ex-champ McClellan's ongoing medical condition, the World Boxing Council maintained its concern for its fallen champion by making a ' Gerald McClellan Appeal ' publicly appealing for donations to The Gerald McClellan Trust in Illinois, to Gerald's sisters in order to maintain Gerald's 24 hour care.
Former world light middleweight champion Terry Norris, whose Fatal Fight Foundation acts to protect boxers, made an appeal for the Gerald McClellan Trust, noting " McClellan's organs are starting to shut down because of his brain injury.
On July 26, 1861, the Department of the Shenandoah, commanded by Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, was merged with McClellan's departments and on that day, McClellan formed the Army of the Potomac, which was composed of all military forces in the former Departments of Northeastern Virginia, Washington, Baltimore, and the Shenandoah.
Goldsborough refused to be placed under McClellan's direct command, telling Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox that he would instead cooperate with McClellan.
The ruse delayed McClellan's movements, causing the cautious leader to plan and deploy an elaborate siege of Yorktown, which was abandoned by the Confederates retreating towards Williamsburg and Richmond only a short time before McClellan intended to launch his siege.
Redistribution of electoral boundaries forced Lupusella to run against fellow NDP Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) Ross McClellan for the party's nomination in Dovercourt after McClellan's Bellwoods riding was eliminated.
On December 10, 1977, Governor David Pryor appointed Hodges to serve out the remainder of John Little McClellan's term after the death of McClellan.
McClellan's air traffic control tower remains standing, but was deactivated following the closure of McClellan AFB.
He served as an aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan during the formation of the Army of the Potomac in the summer and fall of 1861 and continued at McClellan's side during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign and the Battle of Antietam.
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Despite his dissatisfaction with McClellan's failure to reinforce Pope, Lincoln was desperate, and restored him to command of all forces around Washington, to the dismay of all in his cabinet but Seward.
McClellan's replacement was Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, the commander of the IX Corps.
In 1862 during Union General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, Olmsted headed the medical effort for the sick and wounded at White House in New Kent County, where there was a ship landing on the Pamunkey River.
Later that spring, the house was occupied by Union soldiers during McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862 and again during Grant's Overland Campaign in 1864.
During the American Civil War, Urbanna was initially planned as the point of landing for General George B. McClellan's 1862 Peninsula Campaign of 1862 to take Richmond, but ultimately, the failed campaign utilized Fort Monroe as its starting point, almost doubling the distance by land to the Confederate citadel.
McClellan's first assignment was with a company of engineers formed at West Point, but he quickly received orders to sail for the Mexican-American War.
" He served bravely as an engineering officer during the war, subjected to frequent enemy fire, and was appointed a brevet first lieutenant for Contreras and Churubusco and to captain for Chapultepec, He performed reconnaissance missions for Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, a close friend of McClellan's father.
At the start of the Civil War, McClellan's knowledge of what was called " big war science " and his railroad experience suggested he might excel at military logistics.
McClellan's rapid promotion was partly because of his acquaintance with Salmon P. Chase, Treasury Secretary and former Ohio governor and senator.
The immediate problem with McClellan's war strategy was that he was convinced the Confederates were ready to attack him with overwhelming numbers.
The result was a level of extreme caution that sapped the initiative of McClellan's army and caused great condemnation by his government.
The railroad was a key strategic goal of Union General George B. McClellan's failed Peninsula Campaign in 1862 to capture Richmond.
He was assigned command of the 2nd Brigade of the Pennsylvania Reserves, recruited early in the war, which he led competently, initially in the construction of defenses around Washington, D. C. His brigade joined Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac for the Peninsula Campaign.
Following Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's failure in the Peninsula Campaign, Burnside was offered command of the Army of the Potomac.
As McClellan's army retreated into inactivity, Hooker was transferred to Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia.
McClellan's record as a professional boxer was 31 wins and 3 losses with 29 wins by knockout.
McClellan's original assignment was to command the Division of the Potomac, which included the Department of Northeast Virginia under McDowell and the Department of Washington under Brig.
His corps stayed behind to defend Washington, and was eventually supposed to march to McClellan's support while the latter fought in the Peninsula Campaign ; however, the nervous politicians who feared that General Thomas J.
As McClellan's army reached the outskirts of Richmond, a minor battle occurred at Hanover Court House, but it was followed by a surprise attack by Johnston at the Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks.
McClellan's brother Mark headed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and was formerly Commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration.
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McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in 1862 ended in failure, with retreats from attacks by General Robert E. Lee's smaller Army of Northern Virginia and an unfulfilled plan to seize the Confederate capital of Richmond.
Isaac Stevens, governor of the Washington Territory, became dissatisfied with McClellan's performance in scouting passes across the Cascade Range.
Lincoln, as well as many other leaders and citizens of the northern states, became increasingly impatient with McClellan's slowness to attack the Confederate forces still massed near Washington.
On March 8, doubting McClellan's resolve, Lincoln again interfered with the army commander's prerogatives.
* FDA's economist in chief, Mark McClellan's views on healthcare make him popular with the drug industry, by Christopher Rowland, Boston Globe, January 18, 2004.
Halleck, with McClellan's approval, believed in turning the enemy's Mississippi River strongholds rather than attacking them directly, so he moved away from the river.
At this time Rosenthal was issued with a subpoena to appear before Senator McClellan's subcommittee on Gambling and Organized Crime, accused of match fixing.
Pope was dismissed from command and his army merged with McClellan's.
Lee then turned northward to deal with the Union Army of Virginia, commanded by Major General John Pope, planning to defeat Pope's army before it could unite with McClellan's army arriving from the Peninsula.
Thereafter he supported General McClellan's Peninsula Campaign with Naval bombardment, preventing Confederate forces from overunning the Army of the Potomac's position.
The Seven Days ended with McClellan's army in relative safety next to the James River, having suffered almost 16, 000 casualties during the retreat.
( This decision was fatal to McClellan's campaign because by abandoning the railroad that led from the Pamunkey, he would no longer be able to supply his planned siege of Richmond with the necessary heavy artillery.
On August 6, Pope marched his forces south into Culpeper County with the objective of capturing the rail junction at Gordonsville, in an attempt to draw Confederate attention away from Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's withdrawal from the Virginia Peninsula.
Wistar said that he and Baker had a brief discussion just prior to his being killed, and Baker said, “ The officer who dies with his men will never be harshly judged .” President Lincoln was at General George McClellan's headquarters that evening when he got the news of Baker ’ s death.
On 29 June 1862, Robert E. Lee had the gun pushed by a locomotive over the Richmond and York River line ( later part of the Southern Railway ) and used at the Battle of Savage's Station to interfere with General George McClellan's plans for siege operations against Richmond during the Union advance up the peninsula.
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