Brady’s Incidents of the War. (Genl. McClellan) at head quarters, Genl. Morell’s Brigade. Minor’s Hill, Va. [Brady Co. cabinet card]
Library of Congress says: Gen. George B. McClellan and staff, Miner’s [sic] Hill, Va. March 1862.
Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 1, p.257 says: A picture taken in the fall of 1861, when McClellan was at the headquarters of General George W. Morell, commanding a brigade of Fitz John Porter’s Division. Morell was then stationed on the defenses of Washington at Minor’s Hill in Virginia, and General McClellan was engaged in transforming the raw recruits in the camps near the national capital into the finished soldiers of the Army of the Potomac. “Little Mac,” as they called him, was at this time at the height of his popularity. He appears in the center between two of his favorite aides-de-camp – Lieut. Cols. A. V. Colburn and N. B. Sweitzer – whom he usually selected, he writes, “when hard riding is required.” Farther to the right stand two distinguished visitors – the Prince de Joinville, son of King Louis Phillippe of France, and his nephew, the Count of Paris, who wears the uniform of McClellan’s staff, on which he was to serve throughout the Peninsula Campaign. He afterwards wrote a valuable “History of the Cival [sic] War.”
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