MEDFORDeJlliTRIBUNE
: SECTION B
MEDFORD. OREGON. MONDAY. MAY 8. 1961
PAGES 1 to 8
CIVIL WAR
McClellan Shines in Early Role
THIS
By MEHTON T. AKERS
UPI Correspondent
' In May, 1861, George Brin
ton McClellan entered the
f Civil War.
This. 35-year-old Pennsyl
' vanian would remain down
1 stage center on the war scene
tor 6 year-and-a-half, the most
' controversial general of the
conflict - a hero to some, a
failure to many more. Many
' of his lines were delivered as
. soliloquays and addressed to
voters and polticians, rather
J than to the limited audience
J of his military role.
In a war which was over
crowded with generals whose
. political ambitions often out-
ran their military prowess,
i McClellan stood for a brief
moment at the top, but there
was a Greek chorus chanting
. doom in the wings.
. Muffs Both Chances .
He was the only general
; of the Army of the Potomac
i who had two golden chances
to decisively defeat the Army
' of Northern Virginia and cap
'i ture the Confederate capital,
T Richmond. He muffed both of
them without ever having
J. been beaten decisively him
" self.
; Graduated second in a class
' of 59 from West Point in
1846, McClellan had a dis
tinguished career behind him
' at Ft. Sumter time. He seem
ed to be the best military tal-
, ent the Union possessed at
s the moment.
He won three brevets in the
t Mexican War. Then he spent
a year in Europe studying
military operations. His re-
l port, including a section on
: the Crimean War, was hailed
; as a masterpiece. By 1857 he
' was a captain, but resigned
F to go into business, becoming
: by wartime a vice president
of the Illinois Central Rail
road, one of whose lawyers
was Abraham Lincoln. There
' would come a time when this
ex-vice president of a railroad
would ignore Lincoln sitting
In the McClellarf living room
' and go to bed without see
ing him. By that time McClel
lan was commander-in-chief
of the Union armies and Lin
- coin was President of the
United States and commander-in-chief
of all its armed
forces, including McClellan
himself. (Still later in the
dark days of 1864, McClellan
would run against Lincoln for
the presidency and be soundly
trounced, his last defeat.
He's Still Controversial
:, Now, 100 yea.'S later, his
torians wrangle as much
about McClellan's place in
Civil War history as any of
his . contemporaries. Middle
ground then and now Is a nar
row strip of land.
But in the spring of '61, Mc
Clellan seemed to be the man
on the white horse. Gov. Wil
liam Dennison of Ohio sum
moned him to Columbus With
a view to giving him com
mand of the state's forces. Ja
cob D. Cox, a state senator
and ' a brigadier general of
militia, met McClellan at the
railroad station. Cox described
McClellan as "rather under
. medium height, but muscu
. larly formed, with broad
shoulders and a well poised
' head, active and graceful in
' motion. His whole appearance
: was quiet and modest, but
when drawn out, he showed
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IN WAR SPOTLIGHT In May, 1861, George Brinton Mc
Clellan entered the Civil War. The 35-year-old Pennsylvanian
would remain in the spotlight for a year and a half, the
most controversial general of the conflict. A brilliant organ
izer, he was to be the only general of the Army of the
Potomac who had two chances to defeat the Army of North
ern Virginia and muffed both. McClellan is shown in an
engraving made in the early 1880s. (UPI Telephoto)
Try and Stop Mo
-By BENNETT CERP
SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE, urbane and accomplished
British actor, has completed an autobiography entitled
"A Victorian in Orbit" In it he boasts of compliment 'i
received from Bernard
Shaw. "You, are," an
nounced Shaw, "my fifth
favorite actor, the first
four being the Marx
Brothers."
King George had a
little trouble the day he
knighted Sir Cedric. As
Hardwicke knelt before
him, the Lord Chamber
lin read his name. The
King said sharply,
"Who?" He didn't get it
the second time, either,
then demanded, "Spell
it." "For an actor's name to be spelled out," confessed Hard,
wicke, "is his greatest humiliation."
It turns out that spelling didn't help King George a bit.
He finally whacked Sir Cedric on the back with his jeweled
sword, and dubbed him, rather testily, "Sir Samuel Pick
wick." a
Most tragic figure of the week: the Eskimo who stabbed him
self with an icicle and died of cold cuts.
0 1961, by Bennett Cei-f. Distributed by Kins Feature Syndicate
(J yCyo,IT actor j
no lack of confidence in him
self." McClellan accepted com
mand of the Ohio troops with
the rank of major general
and the next day he and Cox'
took stock of their equipment.
"We found a few boxes of
smooth bore muskets . . rust
ed and damaged," Cox wrote.
"No belt, cartridge boxes or
other accouterments . . .two
or three smooth bore field
pieces, 6 pounders . . . honey
combed by firing of salutes
. . . a confused pile of mildew
ed harness , . . not worth car
rying away.
That pile of rubbish was
McClellan's store of var ma
terial. But he had volunteers,
about 10,000 of them, and he
ordered up 2,000 copies of
Hardee's - "Tactics," the
Army's standar." drill manual.
He drew up in a week plans
for supplying and equiping
Ohio's army. He auded a
grand strategy plan to win
the war which he sent to Gen.
Winfield Sco't, Army com
mander. This called for a
drive east from Ohio to threat
en Richmond on the flank
and cooperation with the
Army at Washington and an
other army to march south
and open the Mississippi Val
ley. ,
Scott answered on May 3 in
flatterfng terms without ap
proving the plan. But Cox
thought the plan paved the
way for McClellan's appoint
ment on May 13 as major gen
eral In the Regular Army. Mc
Clellan's territory was the De
partment of Ohio and part of
Western Virginia, which later
became the new state of West
Virginia.
Here McClellan's brilliance
in organizing and training
armies began to function.
Within a matter a days, re
cruits were drilling at Camp
Dennison at Cincinnati, Mc
Clellan had moved his head
quarters there and was dash
ing hither and yon on horse
back, a handsome figure rid
ing on a "McClellan" saddle
which he had perfected from
his European study days and
which the U.S. Cavalry used
until gasoline, engines took
over from horseflesh.
Grant Approaches McClellan
' One of McClellan's callers
in these busy days was Uly
sses S. Grant, who crossed the
Ohio River . from Covington,
Ky., where he was visiting his
parents. Ex-captain "Sam"
Grant was looking for a war
job. "More than 20 years later
he recalled in his memoirs:
"I had known him slightly
at West Point . . . and in the
Mexican War. I was in hopes
that when he saw me he
would offer me a position on
his staff. I called on two suc
cessive days but failed to see
him. . .."
McClellan in his memoirs
recounted:
"This was his good luck for
had I been there I would no
doubt given him a place on
my staff, and he probably
would have remained with
me and shared my fate." .
On one of McClellan's in
spection tours he came upon
two regiments in training at
loggerheads on a road because
neither of the two inexperi
enced colonels knew what or
der to give so they could
pass. The situation had pro
gressed to the fist fight stage
when McClellan rode up.
"Soldiers! Spare your blows
for the enemies of your coun
try," McClellan declaimed.
The fights ended, the col
onels made up and the two
regiments were brigaded to
gether. Incidents like that piled up
until McClellan came to be
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Elizabeth Taylor
Said 'Doing Fine'
Hollywood-(inB-"She's com
ing along just fine," a friend
said today of Elizabeth Tay
lor, whose husband, singer
Eddie Fisher, cancelled a
charity appearance when the
actress came down with a high
temperature.
Fisher called off his attend
ance at a Hollywood benefit
party Saturday night after his
wife developed a 103-degree
fever that afternoon.
Dr. Rex Kennamer, Miss
Taylor's physician, had ad
vised her two day before the
affair not to attend. "The
doctor just doesn't want her
in crowds," a friend said. "She
is still recuperating.'.'
Note Teffs Police
Jhat Truck Was Stolen
An obliging thief enabled
state police at Grants Pass to
recover a lumber truck soon
after it was stolen this week
end. .
The lumber truck, stolen
from Mt. Pitt Lumber com
pany, Central Point, was
found by state police with a
note attached to the wind
shield stating the vehicle, had
been stolen. Officers are look
ing for the thief, obliging or
not.
known as "the young Napol
eon" and played up to the
name by posing with his hand
in his uniform coat in the best
"Little Corporal" style.
In a month there would be
fighting in the western coun
ties of Virginia across the
Ohio-from McClellan and he
would be there, costumed,
made up, self-billed and his
lines down pat. And he would
win some battles, too. Not
big ones, but the newspapers
gave them big headlines.
The star of the "young Na
poleon" was rising and Mc
Clellan was not the man to
hide it.
Petitions To Seek
New City in Oregon
Portland-IHPI-A public rally
to start circulation of peti
tions for an election to form
a new city of Holladay in east
ern Multnomah county is
scheduled tonight.
The proposed city would be
located between the Columbia
river on the north and the
Clackamas county line on the
south, and northeast and 92nd-
96th aves. on the west and
northeast 162nd-169th aves. on
the east.
There would be a buffer
zone of two to four blocks be
tween Portland and the pro
posed city, which would have
a population of about 75,000
and be Oregon's second
largest.
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