Who General McClellan is.
To the Editor of the Richmond Dispatch:
I noticed in your paper a few days ago a paragraph from the Charleston Courier, stating that General McClellan was born in Columbia, South Carolina.
It is a mistake.
General McClellan was born in the city of Philadelphia.
He is about forty years of age, and consequently in the prime of life.
He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
His father, Dr. George McClellan, was for many years a professor in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.
He was very aristocratic in his bearing and manners, a gentleman of the old school, a staunch Democrat in his politics, and a warm friend to the South.
No professor in the medical schools of Philadelphia was more popular with the Southern students than Dr. McClellan save, perhaps, old Dr. Chapman. General McClellan is well bred.
He graduated at West Point, and has always been a great favorite with Southern officers in the old army.
While President Davis was Secretary of War under the Pierce Administration he selected General McClellan to visit the Crimea during the war between England, France and Russia in an official character.
His report to the War Department, on the military position of the European combatants, and on the new engines of war brought into use by them, was held to be an able document, and was ordered to be published.
His family is one of the most distinguished in Pennsylvania.
He ranks with such families as the Reid's, Cadwallader's, Patterson's, Bluny's, Chapman's, the Dallas's, and others, the very cream of Pennsylvania society. Fleta.
