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Mar 1, 2024 · Elizabeth Hamilton Halleck Cullum (and Cullum Hall) Women of West Point video series: Did you know that George Cullum used the fortune he inherited from his wife Elizabeth to build Cullum...
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Aug 18, 2021 · Elizabeth Hamilton-Halleck. This handsome, bright, successful young man married the beautiful Elizabeth Hamilton in 1855. She was the granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton and the sister of Union general Schuyler Hamilton. Elizabeth was the belle of the season when she made her debut. Their only son was born in 1856.
Nov 20, 2023 · Elizabeth was born Elizabeth Hamilton, the granddaughter of Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton. Through her brother, she met Henry Halleck, his West Point roommate. Henry Halleck has a unique connection to TAG because our club began as the Dialectic Society, and Halleck (Class of 1839) was its co-chair as a cadet.
Elizabeth Hamilton Halleck, circa 1860, detail. Sized, cropped, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, November 5, 2011. Elizabeth Hamilton was the grandaughter of Alexander Hamilton, sister of Schuyler Hamilton, and wife of Major-General Henry Hopkins Halleck.
- Department of The Missouri
- Battle of Shiloh
- Siege of Corinth
- General-In-Chief of The Armies
When the American Civil War erupted, Halleck volunteered for service. The War Department re-commissioned him as a major general in the regular army on August 19, 1861. Halleck’s first Civil War assignment was in St. Louis as commander of the Department of the Missouri from November 9, 1861 through March 11, 1862. Immediately upon assuming his comma...
Halleck’s successes brought greater responsibilities. On March 11, 1862, federal officials folded the departments of Kansas and Ohio into Halleck’s command. Officials renamed the combined department, which encompassed all the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains, the Department of the Mississippi. Shortly thereafter, ...
Throughout April and May, Halleck slowly advanced on the strategic Confederate rail center at Corinth, Mississippi. On May 30, 1862, after a two-day siege, Halleck captured Corinth with almost no bloodshed. The victory was somewhat hollow though, because Beauregard orchestrated an elaborate ruse that enabled the entire Confederate army trapped at C...
Despite Beauregard’s escape, Halleck’s overall performance in the West impressed President Lincoln. On July 11, 1862, Lincoln ordered Halleck to Washington to serve as General-in-Chief of all the armies of the United States, effective July 23. Unfortunately for Lincoln, Halleck proved to be a better bureaucrat than field general. Halleck excelled a...
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Elizabeth Hamilton Halleck Description: CDV, Elizabeth Hamilton Halleck, standing, in dress, wearing shawl; photograph from Brady's National Portrait Gallery negative
