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Major General George B. McClellan
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George Brinton
McClellan (1826-1885) - McClellan was
born in Philadelphia on December 3, 1826 to Dr. George McClellan,
a a prominent surgical ophthalmologist and founder of the
Jefferson Medical College, and Elizabeth Steinmetz Brinton McClellan,
daughter of a leading Pennsylvania family. The third of five children,
he first attended the University of Pennsylvania at the age of 13,
planning on studying law. However, after two years, he decided he
wanted to be in the military and was accepted to United States
Military Academy in 1842.
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Graduating second in his class he began his career as a brevet second
lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. While serving in the
Mexican War, he was promoted to Captain and afterwards served as an
instructor at West Point and as a surveyor of potential transcontinental
railroad routes. In 1857, he resigned his commission and became Chief
Engineer of the
Illinois Central Railroad, where he occasionally worked with a lawyer
named Abraham Lincoln. When the Civil War
began, he once again found himself in the military, with President Lincoln
approving him as a Major General in the regular army. He was
outranked only by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott.
He organized the famous Army of the Potomac
and served briefly as the General-in-Chief of the Union Army from November
1861-1862. However, he consistently overestimated his opposing forces and
his military operations were perceived as failures. After the Battle of
Antietam, he was ordered to turn over his command to Ambrose E.
Burnside and await further orders at his home in New Jersey. They never
came.
After his military service, he was an
unsuccessful candidate for President of the United States in 1864 and was
a Democratic Party politician, who served as the 24th Governor of New
Jersey from 1878-1881.
On October 29, 1885, George Brinton
McClellan died in Orange, New Jersey. He is buried in Riverside Cemetery
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Nelson Appleton
Miles (1839-1925) -
Born near Westminster,
Massachusetts on August 8, 1839,
Miles was working in a crockery store when the
Civil War broke out. Entering the Union
Army in September, 1861 as a volunteer, he fought in a number of
crucial battles and became a lieutenant colonel in May, 1862. After
the Battle of
Antietam, he was promoted to Colonel and continued to advance
during his military career. During the
Civil War he was wounded four times in battle and fought in the
Battle of Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and many more.
After the Civil
War,
Miles played a leading role in nearly every phase of the army's
campaign against the tribes of the Great Plains. In 1895, he was named
Commanding General of the U.S. Army, a post he would retain though the
Spanish-American War. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant General in
1900 based on his performance in the war. Afterwards, he wrote several
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Nelson Appleton Miles
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Miles was the only man to have served as a commander in the
Civil War, the
Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War. In his late 70s, he
volunteered to serve in the army during World War I as well, but was
turned down by President Woodrow Wilson. Miles died on May 15, 1925 at the age
of 85. He was the last full-rank major general of the
Civil War.
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Major Frank Joshua North
(1840-1885) – Best known for his organization of a group of
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