McClellan Gate

McClellan Gate
United States
The McClellan Gate in 2011
For Major General George B. McClellan,
Commander, Army of the Potomac
Unveiledc. 1871-1875
Location38°52′44″N 77°04′02″W / 38.878794°N 77.067150°W / 38.878794; -77.067150
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The McClellan Gate (sometimes known as the McClellan Arch)[1] is a memorial to Major General George B. McClellan located inside Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States. Constructed about 1871 on Arlington Ridge Road (then the eastern boundary of the cemetery), it served as a main gate until about 1879 when the Sheridan Gate was constructed. The McClellan Gate became nonfunctional in 1966 when the road closed, and expansion of the cemetery eastward in 1971 left the gate deep inside Arlington. It is the only gate constructed on the cemetery's eastern boundary in the 1800s that survives.

  1. ^ Dieterle, p. 94.