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In America, was McClellan's name mud before the Ken Burns series about the Civil War?

Last year year I was talking to an American acquaintance on the net with the name of McClellan, and I asked him if he were related to the little general.

The guy was absolutely outraged at the suggestion. i think we need a statute of limitations for him. After all as Burns said, Lee and Sherman faced up to the arithmetic and got on with the job, but you can't really blame someone for not being able to face the facts when they are so horrifying.