When word of his military abilities spread, he served with several different Union generals including Philip Sheridan and George Thomas. I have to wonder if McClurg and Sheridan got together when commanded the Army in Chicago after the war.
When the war ended, he returned to S.C. Griggs, bookseller, as a junior partner and eventually gained ownership of it and renamed it after himself.
A lifelong pursuit of all things literature and was influential in the establishment of the Chicago Literary Club and Newberry Library.
He died at St. Augustine, Florida, on April 15, 1901, and is buried at Chicago's Graceland Cemetery.
--Old Secesh
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