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In France, brevet is a word with a very broad meaning, which includes every document giving a capacity to a person. For instance, the various military speciality courses, such as military parachutism, are ended by the award of a brevet.
This is a list of American Civil War brevet generals that served the Union Army.This list of brevet major generals or brevet brigadier generals currently contains a section which gives the names of officers who held lower actual or substantive grades (often referred to as ranks) in the Union Army, were not promoted to full actual or substantive grade generals during or immediately after the ...
(1836–1910) Major general of volunteers, 1 Apr 1865–1 Feb 1866. Brevet major general of volunteers, 19 Oct 1864; brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. 40: Frank Wheaton: 2 Apr 1897 9 May 1897 0 (1833–1903) Brevet major general of volunteers, 19 Oct 1864; brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. 41: James W. Forsyth: 11 May 1897 14 May 1897 0
The last and highest brevet grade was awarded during World War I to Tasker H. Bliss so he could join the Supreme War Council in Versailles, France, as a four-star general by brevet, after he reverted from general to major general upon retiring as Army chief of staff. [18]
Colonel and brevet brigadier general, U.S. Army. Commanded Department of Utah, 1858–1859, then Department of the Pacific. Resigned as colonel and brevet brigadier general, U.S. Army, May 3, 1861. In command of all Confederate forces west of Allegheny Mountains. Killed on the first day at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, aged 59. Johnston, George Doherty
BBG = Brevet Brigadier General BGEN = Brigadier General BMG = Brevet Major General CAPT = Captain CDR = Commander CMSGT = Chief Master Sergeant COL = Colonel CPL = Corporal CPT = Captain
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Charles Albert Whittier (August 6, 1840 – May 14, 1908) [1] was a Union Army lieutenant colonel and staff officer during the American Civil War.In 1866, he was nominated and confirmed for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from April 9, 1865, the date he met the flag of truce party of the Army of Northern Virginia as that army arrived to surrender to ...