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 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 ...

For the presidential election of 1864, the Grant Club of San Francisco ... which includes a line from General George B. McClellan’s letter accepting the Democratic nomination: “The Union ...