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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;leeg, post: 797204, member: 17073&quot;]<img src="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Classic%20Commem%20Images/antietamobv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Classic%20Commem%20Images/antietamobvslab.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Heritage Auction Galleries Image,<i> From The Cary &amp; Cheryl Porter Collection</i>, sold for $25,300 on 05/09/07.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b>Following the Second Battle of Bull Run, McClellan commanded Union forces protecting Washington. He repeated his success&nbsp; with whipping the soldiers into fighting shape and was able to stop the army of General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Antietam.&nbsp; However, McClellan failed to take the initiative and pursue Lee&#039;s forces Lincoln was again dismayed and in November 1862 removed the general from his&nbsp; command.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Classic%20Commem%20Images/george_mcclellan.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p style="text-align: left"><b><b>[FONT=Verdana, geneva, helvetica]<font size="2">Major&nbsp; General George B. McClellan and his wife, Ellen Mary Marcy.&nbsp; </font>[/FONT]</b></b>[FONT=Verdana, geneva, helvetica]<font size="2">Image courtesy of Library of Congress,&nbsp; Prints &amp; Photographs Division, LC-B8172-1765 DLC.</font>[/FONT]</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left">McClellan waited for another military appointment, but none was forthcoming.&nbsp; Meanwhile, he emerged as a political figure. His sympathies lay with the states’&nbsp; rights positions of the Democrats, but he was dedicated fully to preserving the&nbsp; Union. In 1864 McClellan received the party&#039;s nomination and, early on, appeared&nbsp; to be in excellent position to defeat Lincoln in the Election of 1864.&nbsp; Improving reports from the front, however, enabled Lincoln to win handily in the&nbsp; fall. McClellan resigned from the army and took his family on an extended tour&nbsp; of Europe.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p><p>McClellan returned to the United States in 1868 and was later appointed chief&nbsp; engineer of the New York Department of Docks. In 1872 he was named the president&nbsp; of the Atlantic &amp; Great Western Railroad. Remaining active in politics,&nbsp; McClellan was elected governor of New Jersey in 1877. His final years were&nbsp; devoted to traveling and writing. He justified his military career in&nbsp; <i>McClellan’s Own Story</i> (1877).</p><p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><img src="http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/leeg1957/Classic%20Commem%20Images/mcclellanmonument1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: left">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>&quot;Proposed Monument to General George B. McClellan&quot;</b> </p> <p style="text-align: left">Designed by Frederick MacMonnies, 1907</p> <p style="text-align: left">Ink, pencil, and wash on paper </p> <p style="text-align: left">39&quot; x 25 1/2&quot; <i></i></p> <p style="text-align: left"><i>National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Public Buildings Service</i>.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1902 sculptor Frederick MacMonnies beat 27 other artists to win the competition to design a monument to Union Civil War General George B. McClellan. MacMonnies&#039;s design included an impressive pedestal with bronze eagles and a coat of arms that listed McClellan&#039;s victories as commander of the Army of the Potomac, as well as cannon, flags, and other weaponry. After being exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1906, the 9-foot-tall bronze sculpture was installed the next year and still stands at the intersection of Connecticut&nbsp;&nbsp; Avenue and Columbia Road NW, in Washington, DC.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left">(Information posted here gleaned from <a href="http://www.u-s-history.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.u-s-history.com" rel="nofollow">www.u-s-history.com</a>)</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left">&nbsp; </p> <p style="text-align: left">&nbsp; </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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