Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-16
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Camp near Recfortown, Nov. 4. 1864
Officers and Soldiers Of tie Army Of the POsomac:
An order Of the President devolves upon Ma;
Gen Burnside the command Of this army. In
parting from you cannot express the love and
gratitude i bear you AS an army you have
grown up under my care. In you have never
found doub, or GOODNESS. The battles you have
fought under nv command viii proudly live ia
our nations history. The glory Won have
achieved, our mutual perils and fatigues. the
graves Of our comrades fallen in battle and by
disease, the broken forms Of those whom wounds
and sickness have disabled-the strongest asso-
Citations which can exist among men-unitc rs
still by an indissolube tie. We shall ever be
comrades in supporting the constitution Of orr
country and the nationality Of its people.
GEORGE b. McCLELLAS.
Major General L. :. "A.
The soldiers were thunderstruck BY this, and
those who witnessed the demonstrations made
by them IS the General rode along the lines on
the way TO the railroad station need no other
proof OF the oft-rcpeated assertion that Little
Mac" was the idol of the Army of the Potomac.
On the route TO Trenton he was everywhere met
BY crowds of enthusiastic admirers, and from
many cities of the North invitations came TO him
TO visit them. These were. Of course. declined
Subsequently however, he visited New England
and was met at every point by immense crowds,
including not a few disabled soldiers who had
served under him. II was the same story every
where. Little Mac, foreyer,' was the universal
shont wherever he went.
THE GENERAL IN RETIREMENT.
Gen. Mcclellan remained at Trenton until
about the middle of the winter of 1923, and
then removed to this city TO occupy the house in
West Thirty-hrst street, which q number Of his
admirers, including gentlemen of Republican a.
well rs conservative proclvities, presented TO
him. The deed, we believe, was made out in
the name of Mrs. Mcclellan. The house was
not only furnished throughout, but the cellar
well stocked with choice wines. In the follow
ING spring the General removed TO Orange, New
Jersey, where he has charming residence on the
eastern slope of Orange mountain. Yet even in
this retired spot he could not escape from the
attentions of the thousands who sought to do
him homage. The only occasion in which he
has appeared before the public was to deliver the
Grafton at West Point, june Is, 1864, when the
cornerstone of the monument TO the memory of
the regular troops who have fallen and may here
after fall in this war was laid. Here he was
greeted with the most enthusiastic demonstra-
tions and gained the highest praise for his tera-
~ effort. He had before shown himself to be an
able soldier and a statesman; but few suspected,
until after the delivery of this Grafton, that he
as in the field
General Mcclellan, as perhaps but few are
aware, is a very hard student. Go into his libra
~ and you will find strewn about the table mill
tary works, copies of valuable classics, and
books on theological subjects. He keeps con-
slant watch of our military movements, and
studies his military maps with much assiduity
as he did when he was Generalin. Chief OF the
classics he is particularly fond
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the hands of the Administration since his depo-
stion are known to but few He has seen his
friends insulted by the powers that be, simply
because they are his friends. Officers in the SER
vice known 10 be attached to him, have been
either removed or ordered to posts where their
sympathy for him could not have any influence.
General Meade it will be remembered, came
near losing his position commander of the
Army of the Potomac last spring. and one of
the main points urged against him was that he
was in correspondence with General Mcclellan.
Even the West Point Grafton was not suffered to
escape the spite of the Administration An Off
Ger was sent on from Washington for the special
purpose of poStponing its delivery; and. failing
in this. revenge taken upon Lieut.. Colonel
Bowman by removing him from the charge Of
the Military Academy. His letters have been
opened their passage through the mails; and
in short, every indignity that malice could sug-
gest has been practiced upon this popular Gen
eral. Yet no one has heard word of complaint
from him.
He was content to leave his record to history
and history is fast doing it justice Step by step
it has advanced his name on the list of those
whom it calls gre t, until now it shines beside
the proudest names of which our country boasts
The mists in which partisan malice tried to en-
velop it have been dissolved by the light of truth
and to-day grateful people look to Mcclellan
to save them from the ruin which his defamers
have brought upon the country. That the ma
ton will elevate him TO the place which Wash
ington honored as a Lincoln has dishonored is
beyond a doubt. The soldier. the statesman,
the orator, the Christian-such are the titles
which history will award to George Brinton Nc
Clellan.