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George Brinton McClellan
(December 3, 1826 ? October 29, 1885) was a
Major general
in
Union army
during the
American Civil War
. In 1861 and 1862, he was in charge of the
Army of the Potomac
. He led the
Peninsula Campaign
, an attempt to take
Richmond, Virginia
that didn't work. Though he won the
Battle of Antietam
, he did not get along with President
Abraham Lincoln
, who fired him. After he stopped being a general, he became a politician, and ran against Lincoln in the 1864 election. He was later Governor of
New Jersey
, though he was originally from
Pennsylvania
. He was also a prominent
engineer
, and was offered the job as President of the
University of California
.
He was seen as slow and thought all his fights through, training his soldiers very long. He was too slow acting for Abraham Lincoln's taste, who fired him several times. Mrs. Lincoln despised him greatly, therefore an influence of Mr. Lincoln's decision.
- ↑
John H.Eicher; David J. Eicher,
Civil War High Commands
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), p. 371.
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