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Harrison was promoted to lieutenant general and became the commander of I Corps and Fort Lewis until 1989. In 1989, he became the commanding general of the Sixth United States Army and Presidio of San Francisco. Harrison retired in 1991. [5] [3] Harrison was a graduate of the Command and General Staff College and the United States Army War ...
After graduating from high school, Anna Mac attended Kentucky State College (now KSU). While at Kentucky State, Clarke was a very active student, participating in sports, Delta Sigma Theta sorority, and the school's newspaper, The Kentucky Thorobred. Clarke graduated from Kentucky State College in 1941, earning a bachelor's degree in both ...
The Pursuit of Excellence: Kentucky State University, 1886–2020 (2021) online; Hardin, John A. "Green Pinckney Russell of Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons." Journal of Black Studies 25.5 (1995): 610–621. excerpt, now renamed as Kentucky State University at Frankfort
The soldiers are classified by the state where they were enrolled; Northern states often sent agents to enroll formerly enslaved from the South. Many soldiers from Delaware, D.C., Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia were formerly enslaved as well. Most of the troops credited to West Virginia, however, were not actually from that state. [28]
However, state and local militia units had already begun enlisting black men, including the "Black Brigade of Cincinnati", raised in September 1862 to help provide manpower to thwart a feared Confederate raid on Cincinnati from Kentucky, as well as black infantry units raised in Kansas, Missouri, Louisiana, and South Carolina. [10]
He served as lieutenant colonel of the 4th Kentucky Volunteers in the Mexican–American War from 1847 to 1848. After the war, he was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1849 and a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1850. Subsequently, he served in the State senate 1851–1853.
Pierce Butler Anderson (c. 1804 – December 13, 1861) was a lawyer, state legislator, math professor, land speculator, and a West Point-educated soldier.He served as an infantry officer in U.S. Army during the Mexican–American War.
William Thomas Ward (August 9, 1808 – October 12, 1878) was a brigadier general in the United States Army during the American Civil War, a United States Congressman from the U.S. state Kentucky, and member of the Kentucky Legislature.