George Brinton McClellan papers
by George Brinton McClellan
Correspondence; telegrams; memoranda; diaries; writings; notes; military papers; printed copies of speeches, articles, and books; McClellan family papers; scrapbooks; and other papers relating primarily to McClellan's Civil War service particularly in the Peninsular Campaign and Battle of Antietam, Md. Includes materials relating to his 1864 report on the U.S. Army of the Potomac; years as a cadet and instructor at the United States Military Academy; service during the Mexican War; participation in exploratory expeditions to Arkansas, the Red River (Tex.-La.), Texas, and Washington Territory; travels in Europe studying European military systems; and campaign for U.S. president in 1864. Also documents his service as governor of New Jersey; work as engineer and railroad company executive; and service as chief engineer of the New York (N.Y.) Dept. of Docks. Subjects include the reorganization of the U.S. Army, national political affairs, and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Includes diaries of Ellen Mary Marcy McClellan and other McClellan family members and papers of Joseph F. Minter.
Correspondents include Benjamin Alvord; John Jacob Astor; Nathaniel Prentiss Banks; Samuel L.M. Barlow; J.G. Barnard; F.S. Blount; Don Carlos Buell; Ambrose Everett Burnside; Simon Cameron; Leslie Combs; Samuel Sullivan Cox; George Ticknor Curtis; William Dennison; John A. Dix; Edward Everett; Millard Fillmore; J. D. Foster; William Buel Franklin; George Gibbs; Joshua R. Giddings; Ulysses S. Grant; H.W. Halleck; Samuel Peter Heintzelman; Rufus Ingalls; Joseph E. Johnston; Amos Kendall; Hiram Ketchum; Robert E. Lee; Abraham Lincoln; Manton Marble; Randolph Barnes Marcy; Irvin McDowell; George Gordon Meade; Charles E. Mix; Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans, comte de Paris; Joel Parker; Thomas B. Peddle; Allan Pinkerton; Fitz-John Porter; William Cowper Prime; William S. Rosecrans; Benjamin Rush; Winfield Scott; Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff; Gustavus Woodson Smith; Persifor Frazer Smith; Edwin McMasters Stanton; Isaac Ingall Stevens; Edwin V. Sumner; Charles E. Swann; Stephen W. Tichenor; E.D. Townsend; Clement L. Vallandigham; Stewart Van Vliet; Daniel W. Voorhees; George H. Weeks; James C. Welling; Henry Benjamin Whipple; Augustus Woodbury; John Ellis Wool; and the McClellan family.
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Correspondence, Politics and government, History, United States. Army, Reorganization, Description and travel, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862, Mexican War, 1846-1848, New York (N.Y.)., Railroads, Elections, United States. Army of the Potomac, Peninsular Campaign, 1862, Campaigns, United States Military Academy, Maryland Campaign, 1862, New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Docks (1870-1897), Discovery and exploration, United States, Armed ForcesPeople
Simon Cameron (1799-1889), William Dennison (1815-1882), Randolph Barnes Marcy (1812-1887), H. W. Halleck (1815-1872), Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862), John A. Dix (1798-1879), Manton Marble (1834-1917), Benjamin Alvord (1813-1884), Benjamin Rush (1811-1877), John Jacob Astor (1822-1890), Daniel W. Voorhees (1827-1897), Fitz-John Porter (1822-1901), George Gordon Meade (1815-1872), Samuel L. M. Barlow (1826-1889), Don Carlos Buell (1818-1898), Edwin V. Sumner (1797-1863), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Joseph E. Johnston (1807-1891), F. S. Blount, Stephen W. Tichenor, Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans Paris comte de (1838-1894), Irvin McDowell (1818-1885), Persifor Frazer Smith (1798-1858), Samuel Sullivan Cox (1824-1889), Amos Kendall (1789-1869), Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (1816-1894), George H. Weeks (1834-1905), William Cowper Prime (1825-1905), Augustus Woodbury (1825-1895), Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), John Ellis Wool (1784-1869), Leslie Combs (1793-1881), Joshua R. Giddings (1795-1864), George Ticknor Curtis (1812-1894), E. D. Townsend (1817-1893), Clement L. Vallandigham (1820-1871), Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901), George Gibbs (1815-1873), Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881), Winfield Scott (1786-1866), Samuel Peter Heintzelman (1805-1880), Edward Everett (1794-1865), Stewart Van Vliet (1815-1901), Rufus Ingalls (1818-1893), Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869), Hiram Ketchum, James C. Welling (1825-1894), Thomas B. Peddle, Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), J. G. Barnard (1815-1882), Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), Charles E. Mix, J. D. Foster (fl. 1851-1852), Gustavus Woodson Smith (1822-1896), Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff (1810-1874), Joel Parker (1816-1888), Charles E. Swann (fl. 1863-1865), William Buel Franklin (1823-1903), McClellan family, William S. Rosecrans (1819-1898)Places
Europe, New Jersey, Antietam (Md.), Washington Territory, Virginia, United States, Arkansas, Yorktown (Va.), Maryland, Red River (Tex.-La.), TexasTimes
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Edition Notes
Open to research.
Microfilm edition of a portion of these papers is available, no. 16,004.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1974.
Gift, George B. McClellan, Jr., 1911-1923.
Purchase, 1998.
transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
U.S. Army officer and governor of New Jersey.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.
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