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McClellan had a whole gaggle of these guys "attached" to his staff.
Photo taken during the Penninsular Campaign, includes (seated at table)
Robert Philippe Louis O'Orleans (Duc de Chartres), and Louise Philippe Albert D'Orleans (Duc de Paris),
The man on the ground in the center is Lt Col Henry Charles Fletcher, Scots Fusilier Guards. Fletcher sent regular reports to Sir William Fenwick Williams, British CinC in North America. He also published a three-volume History of the American War (1865).
vol. 1: https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica01fletuoft
vol. 2: https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica02fletuoft
vol. 3: https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica03flet
Another foreign "volunteer adjutant" on McClellan's staff was Lt. Col. Ferdinand Lecomte, who was sent by the Swiss Army as an observer. His report: The War in the United States, a report to the Swiss Military Department, was published in 1863 (he seems to have had rather limited understanding of what was going on over here).
Photo taken during the Penninsular Campaign, includes (seated at table)
Robert Philippe Louis O'Orleans (Duc de Chartres), and Louise Philippe Albert D'Orleans (Duc de Paris),
The man on the ground in the center is Lt Col Henry Charles Fletcher, Scots Fusilier Guards. Fletcher sent regular reports to Sir William Fenwick Williams, British CinC in North America. He also published a three-volume History of the American War (1865).
vol. 1: https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica01fletuoft
vol. 2: https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica02fletuoft
vol. 3: https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica03flet
Another foreign "volunteer adjutant" on McClellan's staff was Lt. Col. Ferdinand Lecomte, who was sent by the Swiss Army as an observer. His report: The War in the United States, a report to the Swiss Military Department, was published in 1863 (he seems to have had rather limited understanding of what was going on over here).
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