Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family Book

McClellan was around 20 at the time he wrote his Mexican War diary, and he was too much of a callow youth to have produced much of interest. Except for giving the reader the opportunity to do some Civil War celebrity spotting (Look! There's Lee in the text, and Beauregard!) what McClellan wrote is pretty banal. I did notice, however, that though McClellan mentions his friend Gustavus Smith a lot, Smith, in his own Mexican War memoir, doesn't mention McClellan much at all despite the fact that they worked together every day for months on end.