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Confederate States Army: Years of service: 1861–1865: Rank: ... Johnston was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1831 to General Albert Sidney Johnston and Henrietta ...
After Confederate Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk occupied Columbus, Kentucky, violating the state's neutrality, Buckner accepted a commission as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army on September 14, 1861, and was followed by many of the men he formerly commanded in the state militia.
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.
The Regular Army was at first very small and after General St. Clair's defeat at the Battle of the Wabash, [30] where more than 800 soldiers were killed, the Regular Army was reorganized as the Legion of the United States, established in 1791 and renamed the United States Army in 1796.
John Breckinridge Grayson (October 18, 1806 – October 21, 1861) was a career United States Army officer and a graduate of West Point.He is well known for being a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War, his service during the Mexican-American War, and for his early death only three months after joining the Confederate Army of pneumonia and tuberculosis.
The following is a partial list of generals or naval officers (at or above the rank of commodore) either born in Kentucky or living in Kentucky when they joined the army or navy (or in a few cases, men who were buried in Kentucky following the war, although they did not directly serve in Kentucky units).
He joined the Army in 1943, became a captain in the U.S. Signal Corps and fought at Guadalcanal. ... born in Mississippi and raised in Kentucky, came to Tallahassee in 1946 to raise cattle and ...
Anna Mac Clarke (born Anna Mack Mitchel; June 20, 1919 – April 19, 1944) was a Women's Army Corps officer during World War II.She became the first African American woman to be a commanding officer of an otherwise all-white regiment.