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H. B. McClelland
HENRY BRAINERD MCCLELLAN (October 17, 1840 - 10 1, 1904) was an officer and adjutant general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, a teacher and author.
Born at Philadelphi...view moreHENRY BRAINERD MCCLELLAN (October 17, 1840 - 10 1, 1904) was an officer and adjutant general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, a teacher and author.
Born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1840, he was a son of surgeon and oculist Samuel McClellan and great-grandson of Samuel McClellan, a general of Connecticut troops in the American Revolutionary War.
After graduating from Williams College in 1858, he moved to Stony Point Mills in Cumberland County, Virginia where he became a schoolteacher. Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War in June 1861, he enlisted in Company G, 3rd Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in Ashland, Virginia. He became a lieutenant and adjutant general of the regiment in May 1862 and was promoted to major in April 1863.
In May 1863 he was appointed adjutant-general to Major General J.E.B. Stuart and, as Stuart’s chief of staff, accompanied and greatly assisted him during the Gettysburg Campaign. After Stuart’s death in May 1864 at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, Virginia, he was appointed major and assistant adjutant general to Major General Wade Hampton III. He was paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina in April 1865.
After the war, McClellan moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1869, where he accepted a position at Sayre Female Institute as a professor, became principal in 1870, and remained to his death in 1904.
BURKE DAVIS (July 24, 1913 - August 18, 2006) was a journalist, novelist, and nonfiction writer, best known for popular war histories. A native of North Carolina, he lived for about thirty years in Virginia, and many of his histories and biographies tackled Virginia subjects, such as Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, George Washington, and J. E. B. Stuart. He was awarded the Mayflower Cup in 1959 for his history To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865, and the North Carolina Award for Literature in 1973. He died in 2006.view less
Books by H. B. McClelland
I Rode with Jeb Stuart: The Life and Campaigns of Major General J.E.B. Stuart