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Wesley Merritt (June 16, 1836 – December 3, 1910) was an American major general who served in the cavalry of the United States Army during the American Civil War, American Indian Wars, and Spanish–American War.
Wesley Merritt, Union cavalry officer and first military governor of the Philippines, was born June 16, 1834 in New York City. When he was seven, he moved with his family to St. Clair county Illinois.
Oct 9, 2014 · Overshadowed by Custer and Rosser is the fighting that took place on the Turnpike between the Federal division of Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt and Confederates led by Brig. Gen. Lunsford Lomax. Merritt, a contemporary of Custer, was born on June 16, 1834 in New York City, but grew up in Illinois.
Gen. Wesley Merritt served as military commander of the U.S. Army troops dispatched to the Oklahoma District preparatory to the Land Run of 1889. He was born in New York June 16, 1834, to John W. and Julia Anne Merritt and graduated with the West Point Class of 1860.
Wesley Merritt. General (USA) June 16, 1836 — December 3, 1910. In 1862, Merritt was appointed captain in the 2nd Cavalry and served as an aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Philip St. George Cooke, who commanded the Cavalry Department of the Army of the Potomac. He served in the defenses of Washington, D.C., for the rest of 1862.
Wesley Merritt was an American major general who served in the cavalry of the United States Army during the American Civil War, American Indian Wars, and Spanish–American War. Following the latter war, he became the first American Military Governor of the Philippines.
General Wesley Merritt (seated center) poses with his staff before the camera of Mathew Brady in this 1864 photograph. A highly competent cavalry officer, Merritt commanded the 1st Cavalry Division of Sheridan’s Army of the Shenandoah.
