The 1846 West Point graduate Capt. George B. McClellan came to the Vancouver Barracks in 1853 after serving in the War with Mexico. An engineering officer since his graduation, the Army assigned McCle ...

Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN and wife sailed yesterday, on the Cunard steamer China, for Europe, where they intend remaining six months. After stopping a few days in London and Paris, they will go ...

It’s from the story of Gen. George B. McClellan, the man who amassed the giant Union army but was reluctant to use it. It was as if, having built the perfect force, he wasn’t using it till he ...

GOOD fortune seemed to wait on McClellan’s early career. He graduated from West Point in 1846, just at the beginning of the Mexican War, and plunged into active service at once. In Mexico every ...

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