Sua Expeditio Paeninsularis anno 1862 defectio facta est, cum exercitus saepe ex impetibus Exercitus Virginiae Septentrionalis Generalis Roberti E. Lee
fugit et consilium non expletum ad Ricmondiam capiendam fuit, caputCivitatum Foederatarum Americae. Sua pugna in cruentissimoProelio Antietamensi incursionem in Terram Mariae obstruxit, sed sinit ut Lee exercitum ex summo discrimine reduceret exitiumque evitaret, contra maiores numeros. Exitus fuit ductum McClellanianum per proelia in dubium a PraesideAbrahamo Lincoln vocatum esse, qui tandem eum ab imperio removit, primum generalis principalis, tum ex Exercitu Potomaci. Lincoln hanc aestimationem notabilem obtulit: "Si pugnare non potest ipse, aliis ad pugnandum paratis praestat."[1][2] McClellan quidem ex eius exercitus ducibus militibus fuit gratissimus, qui credebant eum fidem exercitui summe facere.
Ab imperio summotus, candidatus factus est factionis Democraticae infelix contra Lincoln in comitiis praesidentialibus anni 1864. Nam labavit sua petitio cum principia reiceret suae factionis contra bellum reiceret, quae bellum deponere et cum Confoederatia agere promiserant. Vicensimus quartusGubernatorNovae Caesareae, ab anno 1878 ad 1881, meruit. Tandem scriptor factus, suas actiones per Expeditionem Paeninsularem et Bellum Civile defendit.
Plures auctoritates hodierni iudicant McClellan militiae effectu caruisse; parvus autem scriptorum rerum gestarum numerus habet eum fuisse imperatorem sollertissimum, cui infama inique illata est a fautoribus Lincolniensibus, qui piaculum pro adversis Unionis casibus desiderabant. Suae partes historicae ergo facile non constituuntur. Bello confecto, Ulixes S. Grant, ut McClellan generalem aestimaret rogatus, dixit, "McClellan mihi videtur una ex occultissimis belli rebus."[3][4]
Bailey, Ronald H., et editores Time-Life Books. 1983. Forward to Richmond: McClellan's Peninsular Campaign. Alexandriae Virginiae: Time-Life Books. ISBN 0809447207.
Bailey, Ronald H., et editores Time-Life Books. 1984. The Bloodiest Day: The Battle of Antietam. Alexandriae Virginiae: Time-Life Books. ISBN 0809447401.
Beagle, Jonathan M. 2000. George Brinton McClellan. In Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, ed. David S. Heidler et Jeanne T. Heidler. Novi Eboraci: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 039304758X.
Beatie, Russel H. 2004. Army of the Potomac: McClellan Takes Command, September 1861 – February 1862. Novi Eboraci: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306812525.
Eckenrode, H. J., et Bryan Conrad. 1941. George B. McClellan: The Man Who Saved the Union. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780548147887.
Eicher, John H., et David J. Eicher. 2001. Civil War High Commands. Stanfordiae Californiae: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804736413.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals. Novi Eboraci: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780684824901.
McPherson, James M. 1988. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford History of the United States. Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195038630.
McPherson, James M. 2002. Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War. Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195135210.
McPherson, James M. 2008. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. Novi Eboraci: Penguin Press. ISBN 9781594201912.
Nevins, Allan. 1959. The War for the Union. Vol. 1, The Improvised War 1861–1862. Novi Eboraci: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 0684104261.
Rafuse, Ethan S. 2005. McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253345324.
Rowland, Thomas J. 1998. George Brinton McClellan. In Leaders of the American Civil War: A Biographical and Historiographical Dictionary, ed. Charles F. Ritter et Jon L. Wakelyn. Westport Connecticutae: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313295603.
Rowland, Thomas J. 1998. George B. McClellan and Civil War History: In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman. Kent Ohii: Kent State University Press. ISBN 0873386035.
Sears, Stephen W. 1983. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam. Bostoniae: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 089919172X.
Sears, Stephen W. 1988. George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon. Novi Eboraci: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306809133.
Sears, Stephen W. 1992. To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign. Ticknor and Fields. ISBN 0899197906.
Sears, Stephen W. 1999. Controversies & Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac. Bostoniae: Houghton Mifflin Co. ISBN 0395867606.
Bibliographia addita
Beatie, Russel H. 2004. Army of the Potomac: McClellan Takes Command, September 1861 – February 1862. Novi Eboraci: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0306812525.
Beatie, Russel H. 2007. Army of the Potomac: McClellan's First Campaign, March–May 1862. Novi Eboraci: Savas Beatie. ISBN 9781932714258.
Burton, Brian K. 2001. Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253339634.
Cutrer, Thomas W. 2009. The Mexican War Diary and Correspondence of George B. McClellan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3451-1.
Davis, Jefferson, et George B. McClellan. 1857. [books.google.com/books?id=FjVFAAAAYAAJ Report of the Secretary of War Communicating the Report of Captain George B McClellan, One of the Officers Sent to the Seat of War in Europe in 1855 and 1856]. Vasingtoniae: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1857.
Hearn, Chester G. 2012. Lincoln and McClellan at War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807145524.