He served briefly in the Mexican-American War and as an observer to the Crimean War. At the outbreak of the Civil War, McClellan was sought by several northern states to lead their militia.

It's almost time to grab your lunch and head to the Fort Concho Commissary to be enlightened about a vanished author, ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

On both sides, the Civil ... war. Some would die in battles; others would go on to become political figures in the healing nation. This section displays objects used by or presented to the leaders of ...

The year 1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war to preserve the Union ... and then follows Union General George McClellan's ill-fated campaign on the Virginia ...

In the election of 1864, with the Civil ... McClellan wasn’t a politician by trade. He was the one-time head of the U.S. army in the east, who had repeatedly clashed with Lincoln earlier in the war.

McClellan Air Force Base ... and 14,000 signed on as Civil Defense volunteers. 556 Sacramento residents gave their lives during the war. "Well, Sacramento was the kind of town where your mother ...