St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-30

military career. On his recent return from
the Southwest the survivors of this organ
ization rendered him reception here which
was largely attended. Before proceeding
East Gen. Mcclellan remained in this city
several days visiting Old-tme friends.
MAJ. Joseph Kirkland of this city, who
was member of McClelan's staff at the
time the latter was commander-lli-chefo of
the army, SAID in all interview to-day that
he believed If no change had been made
| from Washington in Gen. McClellan's plans
he would have taken Richmond in the first
| peninSular campaign.
mcclellan protested" he said" against
being recalled to Washington, and begged to
be empowered to continue the attack ON
Richmond"
Maj. Kirkland spoke in the warmest
terms of McClellan's military genius, and
| referred repeatedly to the love his men bore
him, ON account of his humanity and solici-
| tude as to their welfare
IN ENGLAND.
LONDON. Oct. 30.-The Standard says:
The death Of Gen. Mcclellan removes an
other prominent figure of the civil war. He,
however, was not fortunate He had the ill
luck to be politically opposed to President
Lincoln, and therefore did not receive the
necessary support Gen. McClellans glory
was short-lived. Grant was certainly not
such q master of the science Of war. Long
before the civil war Mcclellan was an expe-
| rienced soldier. His soldiers loved him, and
time had softened the hard things said against
him.
The article, taken as whole, is very
| eulogistic.
| George Brinton Mcclellan was born in
Philadelphia, Dec. 3, 1926. He studied at the
| university, and in 1912 entered the military
| academy at West Point, where he graduated
| second in his class in IS45, and was assigned
| to duty as brevet second lieutenant in the
| corps of engineers. He served with distine-
| tion during the Mexican war and was success
| sively breveted as first lieutenant and cap
| tain. In 1857 he was assistant engineer in the
| construction of Fort Delaware, year later
| chief engineer in the Department OF Texas,
| having in charge the surveys of the coast of
that state. In 1858 and 1854, engineer for
| the exploration and survey OF the western
| division of the proposed Pacific railroad, and
| little later he was on special
| service IN collecting railroad statistics
| for the war department. In 1856, having
! been made captain of artillery, he was ap-
pointed q member of the military commission
! appointed to visit the seat of war in the
| Crimea- He resigned his commission June
| 16, 1857, to take the post of chief engineer of
the Illinois Central railroad, of which he was
chosen president in 1858. At the opening of
| the civil war he was commissioned as major
| general of Ohio volunteers and was placed in
command of the department of the Ohio and
| he was summoned to Washington and was
placed in command of the division Of the Po-
tomac, and shortly after of the army of the
Potomac. On the retirement of Gen. Scott,
! Nov. /, he was appointed general-in-chief OF
| the armies of the United States. He took
| the field in March, 1862. Early in the same
month he decided that the army should be
| transferred by water tothe peninsula, and
that Richmond should be approached on the
! east. This project was very unsatisfactory
| to the military council at Washington, which
| for the first few years Of the war hampered
| the commanding officers of the army of the
| Potomac in most unjuStifable manner. and
to which many of the disasters which befen
! that organization was unqueStionably due.
| The day before the expedition to the penin-
| sula was to move, sufficient political inf1u-
| ence was brought to bear on the government
| to deprive Gen. Mcclellan of the rank Of
commander-1n-chief of all the forces in the
| field, making him simply the commander
| of the army of the Potomac. The
subsequent events of McClellan's military
| career are too well known to need repetition.
| His removal from command was brought
| about by Pope, Wallack and many civilians
| who obtained the ear of the government, and
even the brilliant fighting of the famous
| seven days battle, including the decisive set
| tos at Gaines Mill and Malvern Hill and the
| sanguinary struggle at -Antietam, in Septem-
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| Confederate invasion and saved Washington
| from the hands of the enemy, were not suf-
| fcient to save Mcclellan from the sharpest
| criticism and relief from his command in
| favor of Burnside. However Just or unjust
| were the criticisms OF Mcclellan as q COM
| mander, there was never any doubt
| of his remarkable skill as military
| organizer. If the army of the Poto-
mac afterwards performed deeds worthy
| to live in history, it was in no small degree
f11nT TT tan fo0 f6off fl,ar ne
| tory was laid deep and broad in McClellan's
stern tutelage when it learned the appren-
| ticeship of war. If other generals, the sue
| cessors of Mcclellan, were able to achieve
more decisive results than he, it was again in
| no small degree because they had ready at
| hand the perfect instrument which he had
| fashioned. The impartial military critic will
not take the same view of McClellan's gem
eralship which prevailed during the tumult
of war and the heat of passion. With
| three Or four armies in the
field working often at cross purposes,
while the commanders were subject to con-
tinual interference and annoyance from Gen.
| Halleck, the nominal commander in chief, the
| government and the politicians, his failure to
| accomplish all that the North hoped will not
be difficult to explain. In 1854 the Democratic
| convention nominated Mcclellan for the
| presidency. He received only the twenty-one
| electoral votes of Delaware, Kentucky and
| New Jersey, the remaining 212 electoral votes
|
| OF the popular vote 1928, ,035 were cast for
Lincoln and 1,S11,754 for Mcclellan. The
latter resigned his commission in the army
on the day of the election, Nov. 8, 1854, went
| to New York to reside, and afterward went to
| Europe. In 1868 he returned, took up his
residence near Orange, N. j., and engaged in
practice as an engineer. By the will of Mr..
| Edwin A. Stevens, he was placed in charge
| Of the Stevens floating battery, which had
for a number of years been in course of con-
struction at Hoboken. He was also made
| superintendent of the railroad bridge over
the Hudson river near Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
and superintendent of docks and piers in the
| city Of New York, but resigned the latter
| Office in 1872. In 1877 he was again brought
prominently before the public by his nominal
ton and canvass for the governorship of
New Jersey and his election to that Office.
Mexico Working Bismarck.
New YORK, Oct. 29.-President Diaz of
Mexico, acting upon the assumption that