George Mcclellan's Role In Organizing Military

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George B. McClellan was a major general of American Civil War and democratic presidential nominee who later on served as a governor of N.J (New Jersey) he created and organized famous army like “army of Potomac ", and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army to ( 1861 to 1862) . very early on in war. McClellan played an important role in organizing army for the union and raising well trained soldiers. At the time; McClellan was in his conscientious planning and preparations; His very characteristics inhibit his ability to challenge aggressive opponents in a fast-moving battlefield environment or terrain.

July 1862. It was the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater. Making an amphibious clockwise turning movement
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