The Irish standard., 1907-05-04

Elaborate exercises marked the ded-
ication on last Wednesday OF a. statue
in Washington of Major General George
r. Mcclellan. This statue by Fred
MacMonies is the outcome of the ct
forts and subscriptions Of the Society
i'm August, 1903, it was completed in
the artists studio at Paris. accepted
on December 20, 1905. and was un-
yelled on October is, 1906. II repre-
Sents the general on horseback. is
executed in bronze and stands on a.
handsome stone pedestal y military
and naval parade did honor to tn"
dedication ceremonies. Tho United
States troops and tho marine troops
of Columbia. New Jersey. took part.
The troops were reviewed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The program included
an address by the president and other
addresses by Brigadier General Charles
A. King. General Yrancs S. Day and
Generals Daniel Sickles and o. O.
Howard.
The event gives an opportunity for
the candid review of the career of an
officer, one of The best beloved and
most criticised of all the great COM
manders of the civil war. now that tho
last discordant echoes of the conflict
have resolved themselves into harmony
in both sections, says the New York
Herald.
George Brinton Mcclellan was born
in Philadelphia. December 3, 1926. and
Pennsylvania. and at West Point. From
West Point he was graduated In 1916
was hrevetted second lieutenant OF en-
ginecrs and Immediately ordered Ia
Mexico, where. as lieutenant of a COM
panY of sapners. miners and ponto-
niers, he turned his knowledge to prac-
tical account and rendered valuable
service. In 1852 he accompanied Ran
dolph r. Harcy later his fatler-in- law
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river. I'm 1854 he was promoted to
captain in the First cavalry. and in
the spring of the next year was sent
| at the expense Of the government. tr
Europe to study the organization Of
European armies and to observe the
armies operating in the Crimea. 1r
I,jr a.
become vice president and engineer OF
the Illinois Central railroad. When the
civil war broke out, in 1851. he was
president of the Eastern division oi
the Ohio and Mississippi railroad.
The outbreak Of hostilitics, there
fore. found him in private life and III
a. lucrative employment which he could
not surrender without great persona
sacrifice. But none save the most
truculent Of his enemies over hinted
that in making that sacrifice he was
actuated by anything save a. pure sensf
of duty. From the governor of Ohio
he accepted a. commission as maiol
general and proceeded to organize the
volunteers Of the state. Illinois, In.
diana, and the western part of Penn.
sylvania and of Virginia Nhe latter
soon to be admitted as a separate state
under the title of West Virginia) were
united with Ohio under his command
to form the Department Of the Ohio
He had the good fortune to win vic
tories in West Virginia, and when Me-
Dowell was defeated at the first bat
tie of Manassas he was summoned Ii
Washington and put in charge of the
beaten trooHs. command which was
soon extended and in the end placed
him at the head Of the Army Of the
Potomac
The eyes of the entire nation were
now turned upon the Young Napo.
leon" as people had already begun tt
call him, though in fact he was some
ten. years older than the First Napo'
leon was at the time of his splendid