Fort McClellan

Louisiana might have a Fort McClellan, or maybe the haunted fort is actually in Alabama, but anyway that has nothing to do with our branch of the family. It is interesting to note that General George B. McClellan spells his name in exactly the same way that my grandfather's family does. However, if you were to look for a family connection in America you would not find it. We can only trace our McClellan family back to two brothers, John and Henry, who came over to America as children in the 1700s accompanied by unknown adults. We are assuming they had parents but we are assuming that we can never find the parents' names so our genealogy books only goes back to John and Henry, from whom the general is not descended. The Union general is not really related to us or is he? Well, in order to find a possible family connection to the general one would probably have to go back hundreds of years to Scotland to find it and that is where the trail gets cold. My grandfather's cousin spent time in Scotland scouring through old church records trying to find some trace of John and Henry there but to no avail. And anyway, John, who was my ancestor, never got out of Virginia and died in that little town near the Appalachian Trail from which my great-great-grandfather later ventured west, finally landing in Texas after a brief sojourn in the Deep South. Anyway, my mother already explained this whole story to John Bueno and family over dinner so I don't understand the need to Fix Or Repair Daily. The facts are what they are, or are not.