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The Civil War
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Follow Sherman’s March to the Sea, Richmond’s fall to Grant’s army, and Lee’s surrender to Grant. Follow the events of Lincoln’s assassination and begravning, and Booth’s capture, as the war finally comes to a close. Explore the consequences and meaning of a war that transformed the country from a collection of states to the nation it is today.
Visit ghastly hospitals in the North and South and follow Sherman’s Atlanta campaign. While causalities mount, Lincoln’s re-election chances dim. Learn why the stakes were high for the 1864 presidential campaign, where Lincoln faced George McClellan. Also follow Union battle victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta and the Shenandoah Valley, and the creation of Arlington National Cemetery.
Follow Lee, Jackson and Grant through battles and northern motstånd to the Emancipation Proclamation. Watch the Battle of Gettysburg, the turning point of the war, unfold. See Vicksburg’s fall, New York draft riots, the firs
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George B. McClellan commanded the Union’s Army of the Potomac. His victory at the Battle of Antietam made Lincoln’s issuance of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation possible. McClellan was a Democrat who fought his war against Confederate armies, but he refused to fight a “hard war” against Southern civilians and he opposed using the army to end slavery. His constant fights with the Lincoln administration, his slowness in following-up his Antietam victory, and his conservative politics led to his dismissal after the 1862 Congressional elections. McClellan’s battlefield victory helped create the conditions necessary for his own removal.1
McClellan would be missed by many soldiers, but his departure was particularly traumatic for the men of the Irish Brigade. According to one immigrant veteran, McClellan “was a great favorite” of the Brigade. McClellan was, recalled one Irish soldier, “mild and pleasing in manner, and could easily
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Our modest little series about some of the greatest, notorious, most important, even most useless, mayors of New York City. Other entrants in our mayoral survey can be found here.
Perhaps no mayor of New York City this side of Fiorello Laguardia has ever overseen so drastic a change to the landscape of the city than George B. McClellan Jr.
For six extraordinary years (1904-09) McClellan presided over the openings of the New York Public Library, Chelsea Piers, Grand Central Station, christened the first subway service and licensed the first taxi cab.
Below: Mayor McClellan in 1904, his first year in office
But oddly, George is perhaps best remembered today for his half-hearted but successful campaign against motion pictures.
If his name sounds vaguely familiar, thank your high school history teacher. George Jr. was the son of the ultimately disastrous Civil War general of the same name, a Union general first fired by Lincoln, then defeated by him in the president