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McClellan and resigned
He served under Fremont and McClellan, and rose to the rank of brigadier general, but resigned in March 1863.
George B. McClellan, Jr. ( D ), resigned December 21, 1903

McClellan and commission
The commission also included officers George B. McClellan and Alfred Mordecai.

McClellan and January
On January 10, Lincoln met with top generals ( McClellan did not attend ) and directed them to formulate a plan of attack, expressing his exasperation with General McClellan with the following remark: " If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time.
" On January 12, 1862, McClellan was summoned to the White House, where the Cabinet demanded to hear his war plans.
On January 12, 1862, McClellan revealed his intentions to transport the Army of the Potomac by ship to Urbanna, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River, outflanking the Confederate forces near Washington, and proceeding overland to capture Richmond.
Under a cloud for suspected disloyalty and treason, Stone was arrested just after midnight on February 8, 1862, on orders of Maj. Gen. McClellan, who was acting under orders from Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, dated January 28.
* McClellan Field, 1 December 1939-13 January 1948
Shirley McClellan was born in Hanna, Alberta, Canada, on January 22, 1942.
Dyno torches were issued to soldiers during World War II, and were popular in Europe during the war < ref name =" McClellan "> A collection of 15 World War 2 era dynamo fashlights is viewable at Dave McLellan Flashlights: Generator style, FlashlightMuseum. com <, accessed January 24, 2012 </ ref > because the electrical power supply to homes was not very reliable.

McClellan and 16
* April 16 – Martha McClellan Brown, American temperance movement leader ( d. 1916 )
Although McClellan arrived in the area on September 16, his trademark caution delayed his attack on Lee, which gave the Confederates more time to prepare defensive positions and allowed Longstreet's corps to arrive from Hagerstown and Jackson's corps, minus A. P. Hill's division, to arrive from Harpers Ferry.

McClellan and on
The area most prominently commented on during the McClellan hearings had to do with `` sweetheart contracts ''.
McClellan, who had once lost his medical license temporarily on a charge of drug addiction, was with her when she died.
The motorist later was identified as Richard Sarkees, 17, of 2433 McClellan, currently on probation and under court order not to drive.
Neither has Congressman Martin nor Senator McClellan been heard from on the matter ; ;
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.
* Clarisse McClellan is a 17-year-old girl who walks with Montag on his trips home.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
McClellan pushed his army slowly south, urged by President Lincoln to pursue Lee, crossing the Potomac starting on October 26.
* April 5 – American Civil War – Battle of Yorktown: The battle begins when Union forces under General George B. McClellan close in on the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia.
* June 8 – American Civil War – Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate troops under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a U. S. Army attack on the James Peninsula that was led by General George McClellan.
And on November 5, seeing that his replacement of Buell had not stimulated Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan into action, he issued orders to replace McClellan in command of the Army of the Potomac in Virginia.
Then on September 22, 1862, George McClellan defeated Robert E. Lee at Antietam ; the second draft of the Emancipation Proclamation was issued to the public the following day.
Owing to the teaching philosophy of Dr. McClellan, classes focused on clinical practice.
The Justices James McClellan and William Savage met in McClellan's residence about three miles ( 5 km ) southeast of Peculiar on September 14, 1835.
McClellan later went on to become Arkansas's longest serving U. S. senator.
McClellan blamed the story on " a set of scoundrels, who seek to keep up agitation on the frontier in order to get employment from the Govt.
In the fall of 1852, McClellan published a manual on bayonet tactics that he had translated from the original French.
( McClellan selected Yakima Pass without a thorough reconnaissance and refused the governor's order to lead a party through it in winter conditions, relying on faulty intelligence about the depth of snowpack in that area.
In June 1854, McClellan was sent on a secret reconnaissance mission to Santo Domingo at the behest of Jefferson Davis.
In October 1859 McClellan was able to resume his courtship of Ellen Mary, and they were married in Calvary Church, New York City, on May 22, 1860.
Ohio Governor William Dennison was the most persistent, so McClellan was commissioned a major general of volunteers and took command of the Ohio militia on April 23, 1861.
Although he complimented McClellan and expressed his " great confidence in your intelligence, zeal, science, and energy ", he replied by letter that the 80, 000 men would be better used on a river-based expedition to control the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy, accompanied by a strong Union blockade of Southern ports.

McClellan and experience
Refusing this opportunity — because of his loyalty to McClellan and because he understood his own lack of military experience — he detached part of his corps in support of Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia in the Northern Virginia Campaign.

McClellan and with
Anyone familiar with the details of the McClellan hearings must at once realize that the sweetheart arrangements augmented employer profits far more than they augmented the earnings of the corruptible labor leaders.
What he was about became clear to her with the circulation of another broadside proclamation by General McClellan, threatening reprisals against Rebel guerrillas.
She had had a party with a regular visitor, Dr. William W. McClellan.
As a result, Lincoln replaced Buell with William Rosecrans ; and, after the 1862 midterm elections, he replaced McClellan with Republican Ambrose Burnside.
He made multiple efforts with contacts ( including General McClellan ) to acquire such a position with no success.
Garfield was as frustrated with Lincoln's lack of aggressiveness in pursuing the rebel enemy as Lincoln had been with Gen. McClellan.
McClellan, Chebyshev Approximation for Nonrecursive Digital Filters with Linear Phase, IEEE Trans.
Pinkerton's agency solved a series of train robberies during the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with George McClellan and Abraham Lincoln.
Burnside had established a reputation as an independent commander, with successful operations earlier that year in coastal North Carolina and, unlike McClellan, had no apparent political ambitions.
During the Battle of Seven Pines he marched his men in the wrong direction down the wrong road, causing congestion and confusion with other Confederate units, diluting the effect of the massive Confederate counterattack against McClellan.
During the American Civil War, Union troops occupied Berkeley Plantation, and President Abraham Lincoln twice visited there in the summer of 1862 to confer with Gen. George B. McClellan.
In spite of crippling casualties, Lee continued to skirmish with McClellan throughout September 18, while removing his battered army south of the Potomac River.
Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, termed it a " very gallant affair ", congratulated Custer personally, and brought him onto his staff as an aide-de-camp with the temporary rank of captain.
Custer ( extreme right ) with Abraham Lincoln | President Lincoln, George B. McClellan and other officers at the Battle of Antietam, 1862
" Indeed, McClellan was the most popular of that army's commanders with its soldiers, who felt that he had their morale and well-being as paramount concerns.
During a temporary armistice in which the forces of Gen. Zachary Taylor awaited action, McClellan was stricken with dysentery and malaria, which kept him in the hospital for nearly a month.
) 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.
Traveling widely, and interacting with the highest military commands and royal families, McClellan observed the siege of Sevastopol.

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