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2 days ago · Brevet Major: 3 July 1863: Regular Army Captain: 8 May 1864: Regular Army Brevet Lieutenant Colonel: 11 May 1864: Regular Army Brevet Colonel: 19 September 1864: Regular Army Brevet Brigadier General: 13 March 1865: Regular Army Brevet Major General: 13 March 1865: Regular Army Major General: 15 April 1865: Volunteers (Mustered out on 1 ...
3 days ago · Brevet Major-General, U. S. Army, Commanding. Harper's Ferry, October 4, 1862. Brigadier General S. WILLIAMS, I accidentally omitted to mention in my report of the battle of Antietam the names of Major F. N. Clarke, chief of artillery, and Surg. A. N. Dougherty, medical director, of my corps. These officers were both highly distinguished for ...
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2 days ago · Calvert Co, Maryland. DIED. December 28, 1825. Mexico City, Mexico. ARMY. American. Wilkinson was associated with several scandals and controversies. He fought in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, eventually rising to the rank of general. He was also the first governor of the Louisiana Territory.
5 days ago · Winfield Scott (born June 13, 1786, Petersburg, Va., U.S.—died May 29, 1866, West Point, N.Y.) was an American army officer who held the rank of general in three wars and was the unsuccessful Whig candidate for president in 1852.
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5 days ago · He distinguished himself in battle during the length of the war, suffering more than one injury and also having a horse shot out from under him. By October 1864, he’d reached the rank of brevet major general, and at the war’s end the following April, he mustered out of the army.
3 days ago · The 292-day Richmond–Petersburg Campaign (Siege of Petersburg) began when two corps of the Union Army of the Potomac, which were unobserved when leaving Cold Harbor at the end of the Overland Campaign, combined with the Union Army of the James outside Petersburg, but failed to seize the city from a small force of Confederate defenders at the Second Battle of Petersburg on June 15–18, 1864.
1 day ago · George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the ...
