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The list of American Civil War (Civil War) generals has been divided into five articles: an introduction on this page, a list of Union Army generals, a list of Union brevet generals, a list of Confederate Army generals and a list of prominent acting Confederate States Army generals, which includes officers appointed to duty by E. Kirby Smith, officers whose appointments were never confirmed or ...
The following list shows the names of substantive, full grade general officers (Regular U.S. Army or U.S. Volunteers) effectively appointed, nominated, confirmed and commissioned (by signed and sealed document) who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1]
See incomplete appointments section in List of American Civil War Generals (Acting Confederate). Martin, William T. Brigadier general rank, nom: December 2, 1862 conf: April 22, 1863 Major general rank: November 10, 1863 nom: November 12, 1863 conf: January 25, 1864 Captain, Mississippi Cavalry, July 8, 1861. Jeff Davis Legion, major, October ...
(24 days during the war) Declared the armed conflict to be "virtually" ended on May 9, 1865 [3] Secretary of War. Simon Cameron: March 5, 1861 – January 14, 1862 (277 days during the war) resigned January 14, 1862 Edwin Stanton: January 20, 1862 – May 28, 1867 (1,205 days during the war) previously U.S. Attorney General: Secretary of Navy ...
Details concerning Confederate officers who were appointed to duty as generals late in the war by General E. Kirby Smith in the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, who have been thought of generals and exercised command as generals but who were not duly appointment and confirmed or commissioned, and State militia generals who had field commands in certain actions in their home states but ...
Authorized promotion to major general on the retired list of any retired officer who served at least one year in the Regular or Volunteer forces during the Civil War before April 9, 1865; subsequently served at least forty years as a Regular officer; and was the last active-duty Civil War veteran (John L. Clem). Act of October 6, 1917: 40 Stat. 410
The rank of General of the Armies was revived in 1866, with the name "General of the Army of the United States" to reward the Civil War achievements of Ulysses S. Grant, the commanding general of the United States Army . [151]
During the American Civil War, the Commonwealth of Kentucky contributed a large number of officers, politicians, and troops to the war efforts of both the Union and Confederacy. Most notable among all of these were Abraham Lincoln , President of the United States (born near Hodgenville, Kentucky ) and Jefferson Davis , President of the ...