Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan used this portrait in his presidential bid against President Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Like several other Civil War generals, McClellan served at the Vancouver ...

Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN and wife sailed yesterday, on the Cunard steamer China, for Europe, where they intend remaining six months.

There’s a tiny episode in the history of the Civil War that says something useful about achievement. It’s from the story of Gen. George B. McClellan, the man who amassed the giant Union… ...

General McClellan’s egotism was tremendous; he could not endure criticism but he could criticize everyone else. Perhaps his story should be written by a psychiatrist rather than an historian.

McClellan worked out these plans in loving and minute detail. Every contingency was foreseen and every possible need in men, supplies, and munitions, was figured on.

Gen. George B. McClellan tried to sell the Union retreat from Richmond in July 1862 as a “change of base,” but President Abraham Lincoln wasn’t buying that story.

George B. McClellan, 88, of Schaumburg, fortified with the Sacraments of Holy Mother Church, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. George was the beloved husband of 58 years to the late Lorraine (nee Murphy); … ...

George B. McClellan served as general-in-chief of the Union Army during the Civil War, and commanded the Army of the Potomac at Antietam. He may have been beloved by his troops, but "Little Mac ...

Captain George B. McClellan toured Europe with a military commission looking at new military tactics. Reportedly influenced by the saddles of Hussars he observed in Europe, McClellan returned and ...

In The Wall Street Journal, Fergus Bordewich writes that a victory for George McClellan in 1864 would have meant Southern independence and no emancipation of the slaves.

On Sept. 17, 1862, Gen. George B. McClellan stopped Gen. Robert E. Lee’s first Confederate invasion of the North at the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of warfare in American history. This ...

George Brinton McClellan and Mary Ellen Marcy McClellan, Mathew Brady Studio, modern albumen silver print from c. 1864 wet collodion negative. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.