2021-02 Raynors HCA Live
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Gemtype albumen photograph of General George B. McClellan. 7/8"x1" with brass plate. Fine condition. George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885) was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th Governor of New Jersey. A graduate of West Point, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), and later left the Army to work on railroads until the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Early in the conflict, McClellan was appointed to the rank of major general and played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army, which would become the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater; he served a brief period (November 1861 to March 1862) as Commanding General of the United States Army of the Union Army. General McClellan and President Abraham Lincoln developed a mutual distrust, and McClellan was privately derisive of his General-in-Chief. McClellan was removed from command in November in the aftermath of the 1862 midterm elections. McClellan never received another field command and went on to become the unsuccessful Democratic Party nominee in the 1864 presidential election against the Republican Lincoln.
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