Excerpt from General McClellan The accomplished author of this volume com pleted the work, with the exception of the preface and index, in December last. In the following Feb ruary the reading of the proof was interrupted.by an illness, terminating in his untimely death on the l6th of that month, so that the labor of proof reading de volved upon his friend and assistant professor, Cap tain Cornelis De W. Willcox, of the Artillery Corps. Dr. Otto Plate, librarian of the Academy, prepared the elaborate index, and, under the supervision of Pro fessor Michie, the maps were made by First Lieu tenant William Ruthven Smith, of the Artillery Corps, an instructor in the Department of Philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.