The youngest of eighteen sons and daughters of a Maryland slave father who had purchased his freedom and a fugitive slave mother, Still was born in Medford, New Jersey, in 1821. He moved to Philadelphia in 1844, where he worked as a handyman until the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society hired him a...
McClellan embarked on the Peninsular campaign, a military commander with a very different political outlook compelled Lincoln to clarify yet again his policy toward slavery. In March 1862, Major General David Hunter, a West Point graduate from Illinois and one of the few abolitionists in the offi...