Editing George B. McClellan (section)

==Notes==
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<ref name="Appletons">{{cite encyclopedia |title=McClellan, Samuel |encyclopedia=Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography |editor-last=Wilson | editor-first = James Grant |year=1888 |volume=4}}</ref>
<ref name="Eicher371">Eicher, p. 371.</ref>
<ref name="Sears95">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 95.</ref>
<ref name="Sandburg62">Sandburg, p. 62.</ref>
<ref name="Sears, Young Napoleon, p. 116">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 116.</ref>
<ref name="Tried122">McPherson, ''Tried by War'', p. 122.</ref>
<ref name="McPherson360">McPherson, ''Battle Cry'', p. 360.</ref>
<ref name="Bailey15">Bailey, ''Bloodiest Day'', p. 15.</ref>
<ref name="wL02N">[http://politicalfamilytree.com/samples%20content/members/pres_losing_cand/McClellan-NJ-1.pdf Partial Genealogy of the McClellans], CLP Research</ref>
<ref name="m2RIm">Rowland, ''Leaders'', p. 259.</ref>
<ref name="dAssB">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 2–3.</ref>
<ref name="dBI0b">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 3; Rafuse, pp. 10, 27–28.</ref>
<ref name="DPK2u">Rowland, ''Leaders'', p. 260; Rafuse, p. 36. McClellan's friend James Stuart was a South Carolinian killed skirmishing with Indians in 1851.</ref>
<ref name="PcZIe">Rowland, ''Leaders'', p. 260.</ref>
<ref name="UHeh4">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 14–15.</ref>
<ref name="ZZECN">Smith (2001) pp. 40, 41, 44</ref>
<ref name="Ciy8T">Smith (2001) pp. 50, 52</ref>
<ref name="Sa644">Rafuse, p. 43.</ref>
<ref name="nNVLt">Rafuse, pp. 47–49; Rowland, ''Leaders'', pp. 260–61; Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 16–17.</ref>
<ref name="hA5hO">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 32–34.</ref>
<ref name="CY569">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 40–41.</ref>
<ref name="IjW0d">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 61.</ref>
<ref name="cH6xJ">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 43–44.</ref>
<ref name="Hjps2">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 46–49.</ref>
<ref name="XcWIh">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 56.</ref>
<ref name="YAAWx">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 59.</ref>
<ref name="FgnlH">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 63.</ref>
<ref name="GB5P3">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 66–69.</ref>
<ref name="MGy5D">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 72.</ref>
<ref name="JHYTr">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 75–76.</ref>
<ref name="73OsU">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 79–80.</ref>
<ref name="sMJ3X">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 89–91.</ref>
<ref name="fSfGg">Beagle, p. 1274.</ref>
<ref name="Z7uIL">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 93.</ref>
<ref name="W4tpx">Beatie, p. 480. Eicher, pp. 372, 856.</ref>
<ref name="RRbjJ">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 111.</ref>
<ref name="gH6Ea">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 98–99.</ref>
<ref name="16vqn">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 116–17.</ref>
<ref name="usRf1">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 101–04, 110.</ref>
<ref name="coVgw">Beatie, pp. 471–72.</ref>
<ref name="Dp7Qn">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 136–37.</ref>
<ref name="12LyN">McPherson, ''Battle Cry'', p. 364.</ref>
<ref name="IgHkI">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 132–33.</ref>
<ref name="RxnAE">McPherson, ''Tried by War'', p. 66.</ref>
<ref name="yY1AL">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 140–41, 149, 160.</ref>
<ref name="kCOI0">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 168–69.</ref>
<ref name="JKwUv">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 164–65.</ref>
<ref name="bVoLi">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 167–69.</ref>
<ref name="Ysg22">Bailey, ''Forward to Richmond'', p. 99.</ref>
<ref name="naBsx">Bailey, ''Forward to Richmond'', pp. 107–13.</ref>
<ref name="zIGI0">Bailey, ''Forward to Richmond'', pp. 128–29.</ref>
<ref name="OZxGk">Sears, ''Gates'', pp. 103–04.</ref>
<ref name="SR0wF">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 216.</ref>
<ref name="Xr7Wg">Rafuse, p. 231</ref>
<ref name="ZodO4">Beagle, p. 1275.</ref>
<ref name="GJIre">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 217.</ref>
<ref name="1ycqP">Sears, ''Controversies'', p. 16.</ref>
<ref name="KmOQD">Sears, ''Gates'', pp. 280, 309.</ref>
<ref name="81vyb">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 221.</ref>
<ref name="yt1Na">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 227.</ref>
<ref name="sK243">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 235.</ref>
<ref name="WEzI7">McPherson, ''Battle Cry'', p. 525.</ref>
<ref name="FgntF">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 260.</ref>
<ref name="wpw76">''Harper's Weekly'', Saturday, October 4, 1862, p. 2</ref>
<ref name="TSZ0y">Bailey, ''Bloodiest Day'', p. 21.</ref>
<ref name="JVW7j">Bailey, ''Bloodiest Day'', p. 23.</ref>
<ref name="aj2ay">Sears, ''Landscape'', p. 113.</ref>
<ref name="qaFQ3">Sears, ''The Young Napoleon'', p. 289.</ref>
<ref name="dXxot">Bailey, ''Bloodiest Day'', pp. 61–64.</ref>

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<ref name="2KYDN">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 238–41.</ref>
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<ref name="H6Nu7">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 353–56.</ref>
<ref name="dPElS">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 372–74; John Buescher, "[http://www.teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/23441 Civil War Peace Offers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202091900/http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/23441 |date=2010-12-02}} ", [http://www.teachinghistory.org Teachinghistory.org], accessed September 2, 2011.</ref>
<ref name="Sx07R">McPherson, ''Battle Cry'', p. 805.</ref>
<ref name="xPUgo">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 385–86.</ref>
<ref name="RmtMN">Sears, ''Controversies'', p. 5.</ref>
<ref name="ad9Oy">Compare: {{cite book | last1 = Sears | first1 = Stephen W. | author-link1 = Stephen W. Sears | year = 1988 | title = George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=BsWWBQAAQBAJ | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | publication-date = 2014 | page = 391 | isbn = 978-0544391222 | quote = Initially there was interest among Democrats in running him for the presidency again in 1868, but his support dwindled after the Republicans nominated General Grant.}}</ref>
<ref name="xY3iE">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 388–92.</ref>
<ref name="xtfcA">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 393.</ref>
<ref name="59Zc2">[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1877/03/17/79829212.pdf ''New York Times''], March 16, 1877</ref>
<ref name="PSMe4">[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1878/01/05/80372669.pdf ''New York Times''], January 5, 1878.</ref>
<ref name="QARcZ">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 397–99.</ref>
<ref name="52Xck">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', pp. 400–01.</ref>
<ref name="td4W3">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 404.</ref>
<ref name="CFBmX">{{cite book | last1 = Sears | first1 = Stephen W. | author-link1 = Stephen W. Sears | year = 1988 | title = George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=BsWWBQAAQBAJ | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | publication-date = 2014 | page = 406 | isbn = 978-0-544-39122-2 | quote = [Ellen McClellan] died in 1915, at the age of seventy-nine, while visiting her daughter in Nice. May, too, lived abroad much of her life. In 1893 she married Paul Desprez, a French diplomat, and she died, childless, in 1945 at the Villa Antietam, her home in Nice. Max—George B. McClellan, Jr.—achieved a political career of some distinction .... In 1889 he had married Georgianna Heckscher, but like May he had no children.}}</ref>
<ref name="2mkwm">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 401.</ref>
<ref name="b7IzB">Sears, ''Young Napoleon'', p. 293.</ref>
<ref name="fvXEP">Sears, ''Controversies'', pp. 19–20.</ref>
<ref name="dtQ2L">Nevins, pp. 294–95.</ref>
<ref name="SPMJ0">Goodwin, pp. 378–79.</ref>
<ref name="d3lJp">Sears, ''Controversies'', p. 6.</ref>
<ref name="i8sYo">Lee, p. 416.</ref>
<ref name="q7955">Eckenrode & Conrad, pp. 46–47, 170.</ref>
<ref name="00MzZ">Eckenrode & Conrad, p. 280.</ref>
<ref name="1oYhe">Rowland, ''McClellan and Civil War History'', pp. 46, 50.</ref>
<ref name="L9t2x">Eckenrode & Conrad, p. 238; Rowland, ''McClellan and Civil War History'', pp. 97–99.</ref>
<ref name="qC7JP">Rowland, ''McClellan and Civil War History'', pp. 7–8; Rowland, ''Leaders'', pp. 268–70, provides a concise historiography of McClellan's legacy, stating that "McClellan has had few supporters in the literature over the last half-century." Rafuse, pp. 384–96, presents an analysis of McClellan that is more sympathetic than the majority of current works, focusing not only on his military strategy, but how his [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] political heritage affected the way he proposed to wage war in a manner that would promote reconciliation with the South.</ref>
<ref name="dyukk">{{cite web|url=http://www.milbridgehistoricalsociety.org/previous/mcclellan.html|title=Milbridge Historical Society Presentation|work=milbridgehistoricalsociety.org|access-date=September 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025142/http://www.milbridgehistoricalsociety.org/previous/mcclellan.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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