VA-C9 McClellans Farewell

Marker text: MCCLELLAN'S FAREWELL

After President Abraham Lincoln relieved Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan of command of the Army of the Potomac on 7 Nov. 1862, the general composed a farewell order. It was read to the army by divisions on 10 Nov. when the new commander, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, held a grand review of the army about half a mile north of here. Both Burnside and McClellan attended, and the three-mile-long line of soldiers cheered McClellan heartily, many weeping. This closed McClellan's military career. He returned home to Trenton, N.J., and ran unsuccessfully against Lincoln on the Democratic Party ticket in 1864.

Department of Historic Resources, 1997

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Location: US 29 (southbound) north of Warrenton, near Rt. 615 toward Airlie., Fauquier County, Virginia

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