McClellan's Own Story, published posthu mously by W. C. Prime in 1887, Gen. McClellan was the author of Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the year 1852 (1853) ; Report on the Several Pacific Railroad Explorations (1855) ; European Cavalry (1860 ; Regulations and Instructions for the Field Service of the U.S. Cavalry in time of war (1861) ; Armies of Europe (1862) ; Manual of Bayonet Exercise (1862) ; Letter to President Lincoln (1862) ; Letter to the Secretary of War (1862) ; Complete Report of the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac (5864); Letter of Acceptance and West Point Oration (1864) ; and McClellan's Mexican War Diary, not published until 1917. He wrote also a series of articles on the Russo-Turkish War for The North American Review. See memoir in the preface of McClellan's Own Story; Wakenfield Addey, Little Mac and How he became a Great General (1864) ; P. S. Michie, General McClellan in the "Great Commanders" series (19oi) ; J. H. Campbell, A Vindication of the Military Career of General McClellan (1916) ; Capt. T. G. Frothingham, "The Penin sula Campaign" and "The Crisis of the Civil War: Antietam," in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. lvi. and lvii.
J.) McCLERNAND, JOHN ALEXANDER (C
American soldier and lawyer, was born in Breckinridge county, Ky., on May 3o, 1812. He was admitted to the bar in Shawnee town, Ill., in 1832; in the same year served as a volunteer in the Black Hawk War, and in 1835 founded the Sliawneetown Demo crat, which he thereafter edited. As a Democrat he served in
1843-51 and in 1859-61 as a representative in Congress, where in his first term he vigorously opposed the Wilmot Proviso, but in his second term was a strong unionist. He resigned from Con gross, raised in Illinois the "McClernand brigade," and was com missioned (May 17, 1860 brigadier-general of volunteers. He was second in command at the battle of Belmont (Missouri) in Nov. 1861, and commanded the right wing at Ft. Donelson. In March 1862 he became a major-general of volunteers, and at Shiloh he commanded a division. Early in January, 1863, at Milliken's Bend, McClernand, who had been placed in command of one of the four corps of Grant's army, superseded Sherman as the leader of the force that was to move down the Mississippi against Vicksburg. On Jan. 1 I he took Arkansas Post. During the rest of the Vicksburg campaign there was much friction between McClernand and his colleagues; he undoubtedly intrigued for the removal of Grant; it was Grant's opinion that at Champion's Hill (May 16) he was dilatory; and on June 18 he was relieved of his command. President Lincoln, who saw the importance of conciliating a leader of the Illinois War-Democrats, restored him to his command in 1864, but McClernand resigned in November of that year. He died in Springfield, Ill., on Sept. 20, 1900.