In the 1864 election, McClellan ran as the Democratic nominee against President Lincoln. George Brinton McClellan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated second in his class from ...

The old gentleman was then presented with two sets of votes, one for ABRAHAM LINCOLN and one for GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, and requested before all present to take his choice, when he reached out his ...

On November 7, 1864, Syracuse’s Republican mayor ... of an apocalyptic showdown between Lincoln and his opponent, Gen. George B. McClellan. McClellan was the former Commanding General of ...

The episode begins with the presidential election of 1864 that sets Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union ...

The race between Lincoln and George B. McClellan, former commanding general ... The commemoration at Fort Harrison on Saturday was titled “Election Day 1864: Black Soldiers Vote on the Front ...

We're also being told that this election year is the most important ... The Democrats nominated General George B. McClellan for president on August 30, and his party's platform declared the ...

Perhaps we have never had a Presidential election in which there was less ... with unanimous consent, GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN should be the Presidential nominee of the party; and it was so agreed.

With the benefit of hindsight we know this but contemporaries were not so privileged. Northerners were war weary because there was little to show for lengthening casualty lists and no end to the ...