One-page, 14 line, autograph letter signed by General George McClellan in brown ink, dated April 28 (no year stated) to someone in New York (person’s name is illegible). Measures 8¼x5¼", with the McClellan’s embossed envelope with .03 cent postage stamp postmarked April 29 (no year given).

McClellan, a U.S. Major General (and briefly the general-in-chief of the Union Army) during the American Civil War. He trained at the United States Military Academy at West Point and served under General Winfield Scott in the Mexican War. In 1857, he left the military to work with railroads, but rejoined the U.S. Army in 1861 as the Civil War broke out. McClellan was nominated by the Democrats to run against Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 U.S. presidential election but later had bow out to Lincoln for various reasons.