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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 ...
The Civil War-era generals of the Army (Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan) with President Abraham Lincoln, March 1865. The rank of General of the Armies was revived in 1866, with the name "General of the Army of the United States" to reward the Civil War achievements of Ulysses S. Grant, the commanding general of the United States Army . [151]
Mexican–American War, 2nd lieutenant, age 17. Regular Army commission in 1855. ... See incomplete appointments section in List of American Civil War Generals ...
Uriah Galusha Pennypacker (June 1, 1841/1842/1844 [1] – October 1, 1916) was a Union general during the American Civil War.He may be the youngest person to hold the rank of brigadier general in the US Army and remains the only general too young to vote for the president who appointed him.
Texas Jack Omohundro Born 1846 went to war age 17; Henry King Burgwyn was a Lt Col age 19 in 1861; William Barksdale Tabb became a Colonel age 22 in 1862; John Herbert Kelly became a general age 23 in 1863; William Paul Roberts became a general age 23 in 1864; John C. C. Sanders became a general age 24 in 1864.
Union Army general of the American Civil War [35] Perry J. Dahl: 1923–2024: 101: American Air Force officer and World War II flying ace [36] Philippe de Gaulle: 1921–2024: 102: French Navy admiral [37] Udey Chand Dubey: 1909–2009: 100: Indian Army general [38] Dai Zijin: 1916–2017: 101: Chinese Air Force major [39] Emma Didlake: 1904 ...
General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. KCB (/ ˈ ʃ w ɔːr t s k ɒ f / SHWORTS-kof; 22 August 1934 – 27 December 2012) was a United States Army general.While serving as the commander of United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Gulf War against Ba'athist Iraq.