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George Brinton Mcclellan's Decision To Enter The Military
George Brinton McClellan was born on December 3, 1826, into a family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An intellectual child, McClellan made the decision to enter the military when he was 15 and was accepted to West Point even though he was several months short of the age requirement of 16. McClellan ranked second in his class when he graduated from West Point in
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