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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Citizens' Oath. (search)
McClellan. Gen. G. B. McClellan, who has the reputation of being the ablest officer in the Federal Army, is a native of Philadelphia, and still comparatively a young man, having been born on the 3d of December, 1826, and graduated at West Point with the class of 1846. He served with distinction in the war with Mexico, and in 1855 was appointed a member of the Commission which went to the seat of war in the Crimea and in Northern Russia. The other members of the Commission were Col. Richard Delafield, now an officer of the Confederate Army, and Major Alfred Mordecal, of North Carolina, who some time ago resigned the Superintendency of the Troy Arsenal. A report, embodying the result of his observations in the Crimea, was made by McClellan, which added to his reputation as a scientific soldier. In January, 1857, he resigned his position in the army to become Vice-President and Engineer of the Illinois Central Railroad, which post he held for three years, when he accepted the Pre