McClellan & Gen. Totten ... the president to better support the Army’s Corps of Engineers, and the Civil War further highlighted the need for funding and equipment, as Washington, D.C., was ...

President Abraham Lincoln, amid the most turbulent administration and deadliest conflict in American history, defeated bitter personal rival and former Civil War Gen. George McClellan to win re ...

When soldiers living in Civil War encampments wanted to cast their vote for Republican incumbent Abraham Lincoln or Democrat George McClellan in the 1864 election, most were able to follow the ...

George McClellan. Other balloons in the corps included ... well before the end of the Civil War. However, the tactic was revolutionary for the U.S. military. The Army Signal Corps would eventually ...

McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac ... so the younger Johnston became a drummer boy -- a critical position during the Civil War that was responsible for much more than sheer ...

Focusing on the first two years of the Civil War in “Lincoln vs ... are so prominent in considerations of the war. What if Lincoln had fired McClellan earlier? What if Davis had stopped Lee ...

When Marcy's parents objected to a union with Hill, she married McClellan, though she was reportedly more in love with Hill, who served as a groomsman in the wedding. During the Civil War ...

McClellan is buried, along with many others from that war and subsequent wars. How so many Civil War veterans killed in battles came to rest in peace in Mercer Cemetery, across from the Trenton ...

McClellan's unsuccessful Peninsular Campaign ... Six Muskingum County Civil War soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor. They were Alfred Ransbottom, Robert B. Brown, George A.

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...