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MeCLELLAN 64 McCLUBE Molino del Rey, and Chapultepec, and was promoted to a captaincy; was one of the three American officers sent to observe the campaigns in the Crimea. At the commencement of the Civil War in 1861, he was appointed Major-General of the Ohio volunteers, but by the ad- vice of General Scott he was tendered, by President Lincoln, the position of Major-General of the army. After a successful campaign in West Virginia, he commanded and reorganized the Army GEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN of the Potomac; in the spring of 1862 invaded Virginia, and advanced near to Richmond, but was defeated in a series of battles in July, and compelled to re- treat and finally to evacuate the penin- sula ; after the defeat of General Pope in the second battle of Bull Run, in 1862, which was followed by a Confederate in- vasion of Maryland, he reorganized the army at Washington, marched rapidly N., met the forces of General Lee at Antietam, and compelled him to recross the Potomac; he followed the Confeder- ates into Virginia, but being opposed to the policy of the extreme war party he was superseded by General Bumside. In 1864 he left the army and was the Dem- ocratic candidate for the presidency. He died Oct. 29, 1885. McCLELLAN, GEOBGE BRINTON, son of Gen. McClellan, named above. Graduate of Princeton. Admitted to the bar, 1892. President New York Board of Aldermen, 1893-1894. United States Con- gressman, 1895-1903. From 1903 to 1909 he was Mayor of New York City. He was a member of the staff of Princeton University as Stafford lecturer and professor of economic history from 1912. He wrote "The Heel of War" (1915). McCLEBNAND, JOHN ALEXAN- DER, an American soldier and lawyer; born in Breckenridge co., Ky., May 30, 1812; admitted to the bar in 1832; in same year volunteered against the Sac and Fox Indians; was member of the Illinois Legislature in 1837-1842; and of Congress, 1843-1851; re-elected in 1858. At the commencement of the Civil War he joined the Union forces and was made a Brigadier-General of volunteers. For his services at Fort Donelson he was pro- moted Major-General. He also took part in the battle of Belmont and led a divi- sion at Shiloh. He relieved Sherman in command of the army before Vicksburg in 1863. He led the 13th Army Corps till July, 1863, and resigned in November, 1864, He was district judge for the Sangamon, 111., district in 1870-1873. He died in Springfield, HI., Sept. 20, 1900. MacCLINTOCK, SIR FRANCIS LEO- POLD, a British naval officer and Arc- tic explorer; bom in Dundalk, Ireland, in 1819. At an early period of his career he devoted his attention to the problem of the Arctic N. W. passage, and suc- ceeded, in the course of several voyages to the North Pole, in making many and important discoveries, besides ascertain- ing the fate of Sir John Franklin. He wrote "Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions" (1860). He was com- mander-in-chief of the North American and West Indian Station in 1879-1882; was knighted in 1891. He died Nov. 17, 1907. McCLOSKEY, JOHN, an American Roman Catholic prelate; bom in Brook- lyn, N. Y., March 20, 1810. In 1834 he was ordained priest; in 1844 was made coadjutor of the diocese of New York; in 1847 was transferred to the see of Albany; in 1864 was made Archbishop of New York; in 1875 was appointed cardinal-priest. The history of his life is the history of the progress of the Roman Catholic Church in New York. He died in New York City, Oct. 10, 1885. MoCLURE, SIR ROBERT JOHN LE MESURIER, a British Arctic explorer, the discoverer of the Northwest Passage; born in Wexford, Ireland, Jan. 28, 1807; entered the navy in 1824; served in Back's Arctic expedition in 1836; and Ross's Franklin expedition in 1848. As commander of another Franklin expedi-