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Mcclellan, George B

journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 23, 1865, in Saxony. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress from New York; was renominated by the democratic party and nominated by the national democratic: party, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. MCCLELLAN, GEORGE BRINTON,. soldier, governor, author, was born Dec.. 3, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. He entered.

West Point as an instructor, and prepared a Manual on Bayonet Exercise,. which became a text book in the service..

When the rebellion. commenced ne was. appointed majorgeneral of volunteers in Ohio; was soon made majorgeneral in the regular army, and on the retirement of General Scott was made: general-in-chief on the American army.

He commanded the army of the Potomac in the protracted peninsula campaign; won the battle of Antietam; and resigned from the army in 1.864. He was the democratic candidate for president, but was defeated by Abraham Lincoln, who was re-elected. He published a number of books on military matters, and a Report on the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. He was governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881. He died Oct. 29, 1885.

MCCLELLAN, HENRY BRAINERD, soldier, author, was born Oct. 17, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was major in the confederate service during the civil war, and published an admirable Life of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart. McCLELLAN, ROBERT, congressman, was born in 1805, in Schoharie county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. He died in 1860.