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George Brinton McClellan

1826–85

American soldier. General-in-chief of the Union army, 1861–2; commander, army of the Potomac, 1862–3. Unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the presidency, 1864. Governor of New Jersey, 1878–81.

Source

DAB.

Bibliography

DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.

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