McClellan's Own Story
“The War for the Union, the Soldiers Who Fought It, the Civilians Who Directed It and His Relations to It and to Them”
“WHEN the occurrences at Fort Sumter in April, 1861, aroused the nation to some appreciation of the gravity of the situation, I was engaged in civil life as president of the Eastern Division of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, having resigned my commission as a captain of cavalry in January, 1857.”