Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1885 — ON ETERNITY’S SHORE. [ARTICLE]

ON ETERNITY’S SHORE.

Sudden Death of Gen. George H McClellan at His Residence Near Orange. He Is Called in the M’ent Hours, Dissolution Being Preceded by Acute Agony. George Biiuton McClellan, formerly Major General of the United States armies and commander of the Army of the Potomac, and more lately Governor of New Jersey, died early on the morning of the 29th ult., at his home in St. Clond, on 0.-ange Mountain, near Orange, N. J. THE DEATH-BED SCENE. Gen. McClellan returned home from an extended trip through the West on Sept 17, apparently in the best of health. On Oct. 17, while he was pissivg through the Hoboken ferry-house, he felt < ueverb pain near his heart. The pain w’s temporary, but the General consulted Dr. Seward, his physician. Dr. Seward concluded that he had neuralgia of the heart, and by his advice the Geneial gave up an extended trip with his wife to Old Point Comfort. Va., to attend a meeting of the Governors of the soldiers* home at that place. During the past week he walked and drove about Orange ns usual, but about 11 o’clock on Wednesday evening, an hour after ho had retired to his bedroom, he was seized with another and very severe attack of pain in the region of the heart. Mrs. McClellan sent for Dr. Seward, and under his treatment the pain became, less severe. At 2 o clock in tho morning, however, the pain returned with increased severity. Dr. Seward administered morphine, hypodermically, but without avail. The General became unconscious, and remained so until he died at 2:15 o’clock in the morning. Mrs. McClellan, Miss May McClellan, and Dr. Seward were in the room. The only other member of the General’s family, George Brin* ton McClellan, Jr., is a senior in Princeton College, and could not be reached in time. Gen. McClellan’s mother is still alive, in her 85th year. She is an invalid, and in the beginning of the summer she was not expected to live until autumn. During the summer she has been at Drifton, Pa. The General returned from visiting her there just two weeks before his death.