Henry Brainerd McClellan
American officer in the Confederate States Army and teacher
Henry Brainerd McClellan (October 17, 1840 – October 1, 1904) was an officer and adjutant general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War (Civil War), a teacher and author. He was a professor at Sayre Female Institute in Lexington, Kentucky, for 35 years after the war.
Early life
Henry Brainerd McClellan was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 17, 1840. His family had come from Connecticut where his great-grandfather, Samuel McClellan, was a general of Connecticut troops in the American Revolutionary War. He was a son of surgeon and oculist Samuel McClellan. He had four brothers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. One of them, Carswell (born 1836) was a lieutenant and assistant adjutant general to Union Army Major General Andrew A. Humphreys. Henry was a first cousin of Union Major General George B. McClellan, who twice commanded the Army of the Potomac.
After studying for the ministry at Williams College, from which he graduated in 1858 aged 17, McClellan moved to Stony Point Mills in Cumberland County, Virginia, where he became a schoolteacher.
Henry McClellan married Catherine Macon Matthews of Cumberland County, Virginia, on December 12, 1863.
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