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James Edward Hanger (February 25, 1843 – June 9, 1919) was a Confederate States Army veteran of the American Civil War, a prosthetist and a businessman. It is reported that he became the first amputee of the war after being struck in the leg by a cannonball. [ 1 ]
Sifakis, Stewart, Who Was Who in the Civil War. Facts On File, New York, 1988. ISBN 0-8160-1055-2. United States War Department, The Military Secretary's Office, Memorandum Relative to the General Officers in the Armies of the United States During the Civil War, 1861–1865, (Compiled from Official Records.) 1906.
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 ...
James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864) was a Confederate army general and cavalry officer during the American Civil War.He was known to his friends as "Jeb,” from the initials of his given names.
American Civil War James Marshall Hanger (November 12, 1833 – August 26, 1912) was a Virginia politician. He represented Augusta County in the Virginia House of Delegates , and served as that body's Speaker from 1871 until 1877. [ 1 ]
Controversy about the event has continued in the 21st century. Gainesville, a city of 16,000, was named in 2012 by Rand McNally as "the most patriotic small town in America". That year, the Cooke County Heritage Society planned an October event in Gainesville to mark the 150th anniversary of the Great Hanging as part of Civil War history.
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George Wallace William Hanger (1866–1935), American; George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine (1750–1824), English author and soldier in the American Revolution; Art Hanger (born 1943), Canadian politician; Harry Hanger (1886–1918), English footballer; James Edward Hanger (1843–1919), U.S. Civil War veteran and founder of: Hanger, Inc.