The Union victory in a relatively bloodless battle propelled the young Major General George B. McClellan into the national spotlight, and he would soon be given command of all Union armies.

The Union victory in a relatively bloodless battle propelled the young Major General George B. McClellan into the national spotlight, and he was soon be given command of all Union armies.

George B. McClellan, the commander of the Potomac Army, was impressed with Keogh, describing the young Captain as " a most gentlemanlike man, of soldierly appearance ," whose " record had been remarkable for the short time he had been in the army.

Garfield also shared a negative view of General McClellan, whom he considered the epitome of the Democratic, pro-slavery, poorly-trained West Point generals.

McClellan returned to West Point to command his engineering company, which was attached to the academy for the purpose of training cadets in engineering activities.

After the defeat of the Union forces at Bull Run on July 21, 1861, Lincoln summoned McClellan from West Virginia, where McClellan had given the North the only actions thus far having a semblance of military victories.

* Waugh, John C. The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers.

He was once engaged to Ellen B. Marcy, the future wife of Hill's West Point roommate George B. McClellan, before her parents pressured her to break off the engagement.

This lost opportunity held up McClellan for two additional weeks while he tried to convince the U. S. Navy to bypass the Confederates ' big guns at Yorktown and Gloucester Point and ascend the York River to West Point and outflank the Warwick Line.

When McClellan was summoned to Washington after the defeat suffered by Federal forces at the First Battle of Bull Run, General-in-Chief Winfield Scott suggested that McClellan turn over the West Virginia command to Rosecrans.

McClellan planned an offensive into what is now the State of West Virginia ( at the time the northwestern counties of the Commonwealth of Virginia ) which he hoped would lead to a campaign against the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

Under McClellan and his eventual successor in the West, Maj. Gen. Henry Wager Halleck, the Mississippi became a somewhat neglected theater for operations in the West.

Upperclassman during Buford's time at West Point included Fitz-John Porter ( Class of 1845 ), George B. McClellan ( 1846 ), Thomas J. Jackson ( 1846 ), George Pickett ( 1846 ), and two future commanders and friends, George Stoneman ( 1846 ) and Ambrose Burnside ( 1847 ).

Without being asked by the War Department, he sent Ohio troops under George McClellan into western Virginia, where they guarded the Wheeling Convention, which eventually led to the admission of West Virginia as a free state.

His writings became standard textbooks in the worldwide field from the time they were written until after World War I. Mahan also founded the Napoleon Seminar at West Point, where advanced under-graduates and senior officers including Lee, Reynolds, Thomas and McClellan, studied and discussed the great European wars, Napoleon and Frederick the Great.

He sought to replace Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan in the Eastern Theater and criticized Grant's maneuvers in the West.

The order indicated that Lee had divided his army and dispersed portions geographically ( to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and Hagerstown, Maryland ), thus making each subject to isolation and defeat in detail if McClellan could move quickly enough.

Among his West Point classmates were future Civil War generals George B. McClellan and Thomas J. Jackson.

Instead of trying to prevent this, General McClellan resolved to change his base to Harrison's Landing or City Point on the James River, about east of Richmond.

But McClellan still supposed that a large army was defending the city, and they began to retreat towards City Point, fighting as they went.

McClellan, a graduate of Sequoia High School and the College of San Mateo.

) Davis was beginning to treat McClellan almost as a protégé, and his next assignment was to assess the logistical readiness of various railroads in the United States, once again with an eye toward planning for the transcontinental railroad.

McClellan resigned his commission January 16, 1857, and, capitalizing on his experience with railroad assessment, became chief engineer and vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad and also president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in 1860.

McClellan has been a member of the Ontario NDP executive at various times since the Rae years and is largely credited with authoring the Ontario NDP election platforms in the 1999 and 2003 elections.

During the early 19th century, several attempts to create a second medical school in Philadelphia had been stymied, largely due to the efforts of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine alumni In an attempt to circumvent that opposition, a group of Philadelphia physicians led by Dr. George McClellan sent a letter to the trustees of Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania ( now Washington & Jefferson College ) in 1824, asking the College to establish a medical department in Philadelphia.

His mother was Elizabeth Sophia Steinmetz Brinton McClellan ( 1800 – 1889 ), daughter of a leading Pennsylvania family, a woman noted for her " considerable grace and refinement ".

On May 3 McClellan re-entered federal service by being named commander of the Department of the Ohio, responsible for the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and, later, western Pennsylvania, western Virginia, and Missouri.

Lee forces McClellan into battle on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania and destroys the Army of the Potomac in the Battle of Camp Hill on October 1.

National Union Party ( United States ) | Union Party poster for Pennsylvania warning of disaster if McClellan wins.

Generals McClellan and Joseph Hooker complained that " a scared governor ought not to be permitted to destroy the usefulness of an entire division ," but the governor prevailed and Reynolds spent two weeks in Pennsylvania drilling old men and boys, missing the Battle of Antietam.

* Equestrian Statue of Major General George B. McClellan, Smith Memorial Arch, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( 1909 – 11 ).

However, McClellan attacked Lee through the passes of South Mountain and forced Lee to call off his planned invasion of Pennsylvania, instead concentrating his army behind Antietam Creek.

Instead of fighting at Antietam, General Lee forces McClellan into a battle on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania and destroys the Army of the Potomac in the Battle of Camp Hill on October 1, 1862.

Starting in May 1861, Union forces commanded by Major General George McClellan advanced from Ohio into the western region of Virginia, both to protect Ohio and Pennsylvania from invasion from Confederate troops and to help the pro-Union government of Virginia located in Wheeling.

Before the outbreak of Civil War, McClellan became active in politics, supporting the presidential campaign of Democrat Stephen A. Douglas in the 1860 election.

Nicknamed " Gentleman George " for his demeanor, he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States during the Civil War in 1864, running as a peace Democrat with war Democrat George B. McClellan ; they lost to Abraham Lincoln.

A key event in the early history of the modern anti-war stance in literature and society was the American Civil War, where it culminated in the candidacy of George McClellan for President of the United States as a " Peace Democrat " against incumbent President Abraham Lincoln.

In 1934, McClellan was elected as a Democrat to the U. S. House of Representatives from Arkansas's 6th congressional district.

In his last Senate election in 1972, McClellan defeated fellow Democrat David Hampton Pryor, then a U. S. representative, by a narrow 52-48 percent margin in the party runoff.

During the war, Radical Republicans often opposed Lincoln in terms of selection of generals ( especially his choice of Democrat George B. McClellan for top command ) and his efforts to bring states back into the Union.

The Democrats nominated George McClellan a War Democrat in 1864 but gave him an anti-war platform.

Party politics, however, occupied much of his time ; Harlan campaigned for Democrat George McClellan in the 1864 presidential election and worked as a junior partner to the state Democratic party in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Despite these seemingly impressive achievements he only served for two years, and was defeated in 1903 by Democrat George B. McClellan, Jr ..

Madison Square was also the site in November 1864 of a political rally, complete with torchlight parade and fireworks, in support of the Presidential candidacy of Democrat General George B. McClellan, who was running against his old boss, Abraham Lincoln.

In 1973, Senator Henry " Scoop " Jackson, a Democrat from Washington, replaced McClellan as the Subcommittee ’ s chairman and Senator Charles Percy, an Illinois Republican, became the Ranking Minority Member.

An attorney, Fort was appointed by Governor George B. McClellan, a Democrat, to the First District Court of Newark, a position he held through subsequent Democratic administrations until he stepped down in 1886.