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Title: The photographic history of the civil war..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works
Publisher: New York, The Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ar-fare, lb remained some time with the Britishforces. McClellans report was a model of com-prehensive accuracy and conciseness, ami showedhim to he a master ol siege-tactics. In 1857. M>Clellan resigned his army commission to devotehimself to the practice of engineering. He hecame vice-president of the Illinois Central Hadroad Company, and later president ol the Eastern Division of tile Ohio and .Missouri Kailroad. He made Ins home in Cincinnati until the outbreak ol the Civil War, when he tendered his services to hiscountry and was made major general of voluuleers, April 81, 1861. The Department of theOhio Was constituted, and McClellan look com maud. May 19th, his appointment as major-gen era! dating from the following day. He drove i he Confederates from northwestern Virginia andsaved thai section to the Union, an accomplish iiieul of the most vital impo rl a nee. since, in the event of the establishment ol tin- Confederacy,I he Union territory would have been contracted at 101
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Army of tlir Potomac this point into a neck but little more than onehundred miles in width. After this success, Mc-Clellan was placed, July 25, 18(51, at the head ofthe newly created District (afterward Depart-ment) of the Potomac, and began the organizationand training of the army of that name. FromNovember 5, 1861 to March 11th of the followingyear, lie was general-in-chief of the armies of theUnited States, and after the latter date continuedin command of the Army of the Potomac untilNovember 9, 1862, when he was replaced by Ma-jor-General A. E. Burnside. He took no furtherpart in the war. His removal was due to dissatis-faction with his methods that gradually developedamong President Lincoln and his advisers. The failure of the army to capture Richmond in thePeninsula campaign, and the non-pursuit of Leeimmediately after Antietam were the chief reasons.As the nominee of the Democratic party, he wasdefeated for the presidency in 186-t, and his res-ignation from the army was accepte

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