The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-11-05
G3D. G. /. MCCIGIIsl'S Death
HIS BIRTHPLACE AND EARLY
TRAINING.
Graduated from West II y
He WAS Assigned to sp
Engineer Corps.
His Operations in TeXas-Gsn
eral of the United States
Armies in 1862.
Candidate for President and
Governor of New Jersey.

General George Brinton Mcclellan,
familiarly known as Little Mac" died
yestel day at his home, Orange Noun
tain, New Jersey.
Gen. Mcclellan was born in Phlla-
delphia, December 3, 1926. He studied
at the University Of Pennsylvania,
and in 1912 entered West Point,
whence he graduated second in his
CLASS in 1916, and was assigned to duty
as brevet second lieutenant In the
corps OIL engineers.
He served with distinction during
| the Mexican war and was successfully
breveted as first lieutenant and cap
tain. In 185l-52, he was assistant
engineer in the construction of Fort
| Delaware; in 1923, chief engineer
in the department of Texas. having
in charge the surveys of the coasts OF
| the state, and it was at this
time that he run the line
which included Greer county in
| the state of Texas, and was thus
valuable witness to the state of Texas
IN the decision, as to ownership OF
that valuable county.
In 1858 he was engineer to survey
western division of proposed Pacific
railroad; in 1854-5, he was on special
service in collecting railroad statis-
tics; in 1866, having been made cap
tainiof artillery, he was a member of
the military commission to the seat of
war in the Crimea.
Ee resigned his position Cd the COM
mission June Is. 1857, and went into
the railroad business. He was chief
engineer of the Illinois Central, of
which he was chosen vice president
in 1858; and in go he became presi-
dent of the st. Louis and Cincinnati
railroad.
At the opening of the late war he
was commissioned as major-general
of Ohio volunteers, and was placed in
command of the department of Ohio,
comprising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and the western portion CT Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia. He was major
general in the regular army May IA,
1861, and received on July 10, the
thanks of congress for clearing west
ern Virginia of the confederate forces
, On July %. after the defeat at Bull
Run, he was placed in command
CT The division of the Potomac, and
shortly after of the army OF the Poto-
mac. Upon Gen. Scott's retirement,
| NON uS WcSo oPPO1hNOo 6Oh
erai-iu-chief of the armies of the
Unitei States. He took the field in
March 1862, having in the meantime
been relieved of the command of all
the forces except the army of the
Potomac.
In the spring of '62 he was fighting
in and around Richmond, and after
the battle of Malvern Hill. July 1, he
: retired to Harrison's J Land
ing, where he ehtrenched
himself. From this camp July l
he wrote that letter to Lincoln which
contraste1 SO strongly with the raid.
ing AID ,pillaging orders issued by
General Pope.
:, In this letter he SAYS:
"ThiS rebellion has assumed the character
| of a War; as snch 1t should be regarded, and it
pIes klown to Christian CIVILIZATION. It Should
people Of any state, in any eveIk: It should
. | not De at all a war upon population, but
= against armed forces and political organiza
tons Meth eontiscation OF property, pollt.
cations of states or forcible abolition of slay.
| cry should be contemplated for a moment.
E in prosecuting the W IT, all private proper
sity of military operations. All privat,
l property takel for m litary use should be paid
| treated as high crimes. all unnecessary tres
pass sternly prohibited, and offensive demean
or by the military loWari citizens promptly re
| buked. Military arrests should not be tOler.
| ated except iere hoStilitieS actually exist
= | and oathS, not requ red by eXactraents con-
Z StitutiOnally, ShOu. d be neither demanded OF
D | received"
, Thus it will be seen that Mcclellan
was one of the few officers OF the fed
eral army who counselled war carried
g on under the law of nations and not a:
e a rebellion.
! After the battle OF Antietam, Sep
TENDER 16 and IL, such dissatisfaction
Was felt at his sloWness he was super
s ceded in command by General Burn
f side, and after this Mcclellan took NJ
q further part in the war.
He was nominated by the democrat:
J for president August 20
f 1864, and though receiving only
4 | twenty-one electoral votes oul
OF 233, he received a littI,
less than 45 per cent. of the popular
vote.
e He resigned his commission in TIT
: army on the day of election, Novem
Der 8, 1864. and took up his residenc,
in New York, and afterwards went Il
: Europe, whence he returned in 1868
q and took up his residence near Orange
Y N. j., and engaged in practice as al
. engineer.
He superintendent the construction
of several bridges and other struct
/ ures. He wrote several treatises OF
engineering, and a Report on thu
r Organization and Campaigns of tht
Potomac" Mcclellan was elected
q governor of New Jersey. in 1877, an,
y after his term expired gave himsel
up to the management of his privat,
business.
He was interested in several mininl
l enterprises in Texas, and always con
d sidered this state the best in the Iniol
O for investments In land, etc.
! Mcclellan was always a conserva
tive democrat.