The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-31
memory ever to be cherished with pride by
the people of the United States.
WILLIAM C. END1CoTT,
Cooroko ,f Wo,.

OFFERED A MISSION.
| It is definitely learned to-day that Gen
| eral Mcclellan came very near being made a
member OF President Cleveland's Cabinet;
that he was rendered the Russian mission
and declined it because of business engage
ments, and that within the past twenty
four hours the President had concluded to
offer him the appointment as member of
the Civil Service Commission.
Sketch of His Lite.
TGeorge Brinton Mcclellan was born in
Philadelphia in 1926. He graduated at
West Point in 1916; served during the
Mexican war, and was successively bre-
vetted as Lieutenant and Captain. He
was afterward in important engineering
work. In 1855 and 1856 he was member
OF the military commission to visit the seat
OF war in the Crimea. He became Chief En-
gineer OF the Illinois Central Railroad in
1857, vice-president in 1858, and Presi-
dent OF the St. Louis and Cincinnati Rail
road in 1860. At the opening OF the civil
war he was commissioned as Major Gen
eral OF Ohio volunteers, and was made
Maior-General in the regular army on May
IA, 1861, and commanded in West Vir-
ginia. In July he was placed in command
OF the Division OF the Potomac, and shortly
after of the Army of the Potomac Upon
the retirement OF General Scott (November
1st) he was made General-in- Chief OF the
Armies of the United States. Early in the
spring OF 1862 he transferred most OF the
Army OF the Potomac to the peninsula of
the James and laid siege to Yorktown,
which was soon abandoned by the Con-
federates, who, under General Joseph E.
Johnston, made stand at Williamsburg
on May 5th. and fell back to Richmond
General Mcclellan reached the Chicka-
hominy about May Goth, and opened the
campaign against Richmond, which was
brought to a virtual close by the battle of
Malvern Hill on July 1st, after which he
fell back to Harrison's Landing where he
intrenched himself. General Halleck hav-
ing in the meantime been made General-in-
return with his whole army to Fortress
Monroe and Yorktown. After the defeat
of Pope at Bull Run, on August 29th
and both, the command OF the
forces at and about Wash
ington was transferred to Mcclellan.
The Confederates, under General Lee, then
undertook the invasion OF Maryland, which
was brought to close by the battle at
Antietam, on September 10Th and 18th.
They then crossed the Potomac and fell
back towards the Rapidan. Great dis
satisfaction was felt at the slowness with
which>McClellan followed them, and on No
vemher 7th he was superseded in command
by General Burnside. Mcclellan took no
further part in the war. In 1864 he was
the Democratic candidate for President of
the United States, being nominated at Chi |
cago, and received the twent y-one electoral
votes OF New Jersey, Delaware and Ken
lucky. He was appointed chief engineer OF
docks and piers in the city OF New York in
1870 and resigned the office in 1878. He
has translated from the French "a Manual
,f De- ~ 4
''The Armies OF Europe" ETC., QS61), and
Report on the Organization and Campaigns
OF the Army OF the Potomac" 1S64) He
has also contributed largely to the leading
and his recent article in the
Century caused much discussion. His
latest business enterprise was the develop
ment of a large copper deposit in Texas, by
a company of which he was president.
During the fall he made tour across the
continent in company with his family, going
as far as San Francisco. He had returned |
from this trip only few weeks when his
eventful and not wholly satisfactory career
was SO suddenly erminated.-EDlroR.]