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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] Many commissions were antedated.
1st California Infantry Regiment: February 12, 1862 – October 21, 1866 2nd California Infantry Regiment: December 30, 1862 – July 2, 1866 3rd California Infantry Regiment: December 31, 1861 – July 27, 1866 4th California Infantry Regiment: October 1861 – April 18, 1866 5th California Infantry Regiment: November 1861 – December 14, 1864
The following is a List of California Civil War Confederate Units that were active between 1861 – 1866. Although California stayed in the Union, it was divided in its politics like many of the Border States. The southern part of the state had the majority of the southern sympathizers.
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 ...
Sierra Greys, La Porte, 1858–1861 Became Company F, First Regiment of Infantry, California Volunteers; Table Rock Union Guard, Company G, 7th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade. Howland Flat, 1864–1866; Union Guard, Unattached Company, 4th Brigade. Eureka 1864–1866 [89]
Union brigade-level officers could receive two different types of Federal commissions: U.S. Army or U.S. Volunteers (ex: Major General, U.S.A. as opposed to Major General, U.S.V.). While most Civil War generals held volunteer or brevet rank, many generals held both types of commission; regular rank was considered superior. [7]
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964. ISBN 0-8071-0822-7. Scott, Robert N. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1881–1901, 1995–1999. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company.
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