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3 days ago · In March of 1862, General George Brinton McClellan launched his Peninsula Campaign. Intended as a lightning-strike, it would stretch on for six weeks. In a way, the campaign showed McClellan’s strengths and weaknesses in stark clarity. By the end, he would achieve the position he sought - but a cost in time the Union could ill afford.
5 days ago · Accepting the resignation of Scott (November 1861), he put George B. McClellan in charge of the armies as a whole. After a few months, disgusted by the slowness of McClellan (“He has the slows,” as Lincoln put it), he demoted him to the command of the Army of the Potomac alone.
2 days ago · His early efforts to be recommissioned were rejected by Major General George B. McClellan and Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon. On April 29, supported by Congressman Elihu B. Washburne of Illinois, Grant was appointed military aide to Governor Richard Yates and mustered ten regiments into the Illinois militia .
1 day ago · George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. [2] Custer graduated from West Point and, though characterized as inept for having been last in his graduating class, actually finished 34th out of a starting class of 108 ...
3 days ago · In the 1840s Congress commissioned the first statue of George Washington, a white marble Romanesque rendering of the first president. It was exhibited outside on the eastern front plaza of the Capitol for years before being placed in storage.
4 days ago · After the collapse of Major Gen. George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in 1862, Pope headed the newly formed Army of Virginia. Three departments were merged into his newly formed Army of Virginia. His former commander, Fremont, refused to be one of his corps commanders and was relieved.
3 days ago · Pres. Abraham Lincoln meeting with Gen. George B. McClellan, October 3, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, following the Battle of Antietam. (more) Learn how both Union and Confederate regiments and commanders came from Maryland and learn about their battles in the state
