138. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN (1826 - 1885) Union major general and general-in-chief of the army whose hesitation in attacking Confederate forces caused him to be sacked by Lincoln. Nice content A.L.S. "Geo McClennan", 4pp. 8vo., France, June 8, 1889, to surgeon Jonathan Letterman, for whom Camp Letterman in Gettysburg was named. In part: "...We are most deeply pained...upon learning...that you had been visited by...the trials that fall to the lot of men...the pain of losing your dear wife...we came from Paris only a few days' since...I hear that Grant's nomination has created no enthusiasm & that the chances are very decided that he will be very easily beaten if the Democrats show ordinary men & freedmen in the choice of a candidate. I have no idea who they will elect...Your book on the Army of the Potomac has not reached me yet...". With original holograph envelope, very good. $600 - 700