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.

With the release of the 2008 book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception by George W. Bush's press secretary Scott McClellan, there are some who contend that this is evidence of Mark Halperin being correct instead of biased.

In his book, McClellan admits to lying to the media, and describes the contempt he felt for reporters who so easily believed his lies, and were cowed by the fear that if they exposed the lies, they would be accused of " liberal bias ".

Lincoln ran as the Republican nominee against Democratic candidate George B. McClellan, who ran as the " peace candidate " without personally believing in his party's platform.

It was originally to be named McClellan County after General George B. McClellan, who later ran against Lincoln for President and lost.

His brother, David Delano Glover, a Methodist, was a state representative in the 1907 session and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1929 to 1935, having been unseated in 1934 by Grant County native John Little McClellan who at the time was practicing law in Camden.

" 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.

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.

As McClellan scrambled to process the thousands of men who were volunteering for service and to set up training camps, he also set his mind toward grand strategy.

After the meeting, Lincoln issued another order, naming specific officers as corps commanders to report to McClellan ( who had been reluctant to do so prior to assessing his division commanders ' effectiveness in combat, even though this would have meant his direct supervision of twelve divisions in the field ).

* George McClellan ( physician ) ( 1796 – 1847 ), American physician who founded medical schools

The Honorable John L. McClellan was born on a farm near Sheridan that went on to become an American lawyer and one of the most powerful politicians in the D. C., along with fellow Arkansas U. S. Rep. Wilbur Mills ( who was the longest serving chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, and considered the most powerful person in the U. S. House and even D. C .).

U. S. Senator John Little McClellan later arranged for Smith, who boasted the most intimate knowledge of the depot, to travel to Washington D. C. and negotiate " over White House tea " with Lyndon B. Johnson to transfer ownership of the sprawling NAD complex to Johnson's Brown and Root.

McClellan and R. T. Morrison sold lots in the vicinity of Jeremy Creek to planters of the Santee Delta, who sought relief from summer fevers.

" The White House partly clarified Bush's position in a February 24, 2004 press conference with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, who stated that by calling on the FMA to permit states the possibility of creating other " legal arrangements ," Bush specifically meant to permit states the possibility of enacting civil unions.

" He increased the pressure by sending his inspector general to confront Burnside, who reacted indignantly: " McClellan appears to think I am not trying my best to carry this bridge ; you are the third or fourth one who has been to me this morning with similar orders.

One speculation is that references to President Lincoln were omitted from the records because the mayor in 1906 was George B. McClellan, Jr., son of General George B. McClellan who was general-in-chief of the Union Army during the American Civil War and a bitter rival of Lincoln.

Gerald McClellan ( born October 23, 1967 in Freeport, Illinois ) is a former boxer from the United States of America, who was the WBO and WBC middleweight champion.

McClellan dropped Benn, who went out of the ring in round one.

Told by his sister Lisa about what she needed to do to maintain his life and keep him at home, McClellan, who remains 80 % deaf, was surprisingly able to hear and understand his sister and gave his approval.

The area most prominently commented on during the McClellan hearings had to do with `` sweetheart contracts ''.

She had had a party with a regular visitor, Dr. William W. McClellan.

Political scientist James McClellan, from the University of Virginia, considered Bacon to have had " a great following " in the American colonies.

Garfield was as frustrated with Lincoln's lack of aggressiveness in pursuing the rebel enemy as Lincoln had been with Gen. McClellan.

In August, the Democratic Party had nominated as its candidate George B. McClellan, the popular former Union army commander, and it had seemed likely that Lincoln would lose to McClellan.

Franklin had been a staunch supporter of George B. McClellan and refused to serve under Hooker, because he disliked him personally and also because he was senior to Hooker in rank.

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.

McClellan had stopped Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland, but had not been able to destroy Lee's army, nor did he pursue Lee back into Virginia aggressively enough for 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.

Aware that Lee had blocked the O & A, McClellan considered a route through Fredericksburg and ordered a small group of cavalrymen commanded by Capt.

During the Seven Days Battles that followed in late June, Longstreet had operational command of nearly half of Lee's army — 15 brigades — as it drove McClellan back down the Peninsula.

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.

In the fall of 1852, McClellan published a manual on bayonet tactics that he had translated from the original French.

) The governor ordered McClellan to turn over his expedition logbooks, but McClellan steadfastly refused, most likely because of embarrassing personal comments that he had made throughout.

His subordinate commander, William S. Rosecrans, bitterly complained that his attack was not reinforced as McClellan had agreed.

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.

) 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.

Showing resilience, Mugabi resurfaced with two more wins and once again found himself fighting for a world title, facing Gerald McClellan on November 20, 1991 in London for the vacant WBO middleweight championship.

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.

Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan intervened with the Secretary of War to get his orders changed once again, assigning him to the newly formed Army of the Potomac.

Two days later, President Lincoln, still acting as Commander-in-Chief, directed Flag Officer Goldsborough: " If you have tolerable confidence that you can successfully contend with the Merrimac and the North used the ships ' former name without the help of the Galena and two accompanying gunboats, send the Galena and two gunboats up the James River at once to support General McClellan.

At 1 p. m., seeing that the situation was not as bad as he had feared, McClellan ordered his men forward to retake the ground for which they had already fought once that day.

Also, during the war, a female OCS was once again established ; it was stood up at Fort McClellan, Alabama, as part of the WAC Center and School.