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 ...

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(Signed) GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN. Early in August the army was ordered to Aquia. The condition of affairs at Washington during the campaign of POPE is graphically described. Sept. 2, the President ...

The prospects of the Unionists in this State are certainly very bright. MCCLELLAN has a tremendous load to carry here. Besides his own war-record, which is very heavy, he carries the traitor ...

He waxes bitter and bitterer: ROCKWAY-ON-THE-SEA, Sept. 11, 1864. To Major-Gen. G.B. McClellan, Orange, N.J.: DEAR SIR: It is a mean thing to listen at the keyhole. It is meaner to open a private ...

We therefore preprint it.] NEW-YORK, Sept. 8, 1864. Maj.-Gen. George B. McClellan: SIR: The undersigned were appointed a committee by the National Democratic Convention, which met at Chicago on ...

Possessed with a razor-sharp wit, Lincoln once hurled this famous zinger at George B. McClellan after the overly cautious general-in-chief for the Union army failed to advance on Confederate forces.