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 ...

Episode Two begins with the political infighting that threatened to swamp Lincoln's administration and then follows Union General George McClellan's ill-fated campaign on the Virginia Peninsula ...

George McClellan ... She was the candidate, she shaped the campaign, and she failed to impress the swing vote, both as a ...

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 ...