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4 days ago · General GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Commanding: GENERAL: I have received your dispatch by Captain O'Keeffe. The enemy is in large force in my front, in two lines of battle stretching across the valley, and a large column of artillery and infantry on the right of the valley looking toward Harper's Ferry?.
2 days ago · It also dealt a major blow to the popularity of the Democratic presidential candidate, George B. McClellan, whose victory in the election had until then appeared likely to many, including Lincoln himself.
3 days ago · Accepting the resignation of Scott (November 1861), he put George B. McClellan in charge of the armies as a whole. After a few months, disgusted by the slowness of McClellan (“He has the slows,” as Lincoln put it), he demoted him to the command of the Army of the Potomac alone.
5 days ago · On May 27, elements of Brig. Gen. Fitz John Porter's V Corps extended north to protect the right flank of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Union Army of the Potomac. Porter's objective was to deal with a Confederate force near Hanover Court House, which threatened the avenue of approach for Union reinforcements that were marching ...
4 days ago · Mayor George McClellan, perhaps best known for excitedly seizing and refusing to relinquish the reigns during New York City’s inaugural subway ride later in 1904, presided over the April 8...
1 day ago · After the defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, Lincoln summoned Major General George B. McClellan to replace McDowell. McClellan had won minor battles in the Western Virginia campaign, and those victories had allowed Unionist West Virginia to hold the Wheeling Convention and eventually secede from Virginia.
3 days ago · It ended with the bloodiest day in American history on September 17 at Antietam when Lee’s army fought the reorganized Army of the Potomac under Gen. George B. McClellan before retreating back into Virginia.
