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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.
The General Galusha Pennypacker Memorial is a monument in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Located in the city's Logan Circle , the monument honors Galusha Pennypacker , a Pennsylvanian who served as a general officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War .
Galusha Pennypacker: Army: Colonel: 15 January 1865 97th Pennsylvania Infantry "Gallantly led the charge over a traverse and planted the colors of one of his regiments thereon, was severely wounded" —
Galusha Pennypacker is reported to have enlisted in 1861 at age 16. Arthur MacArthur Jr., from Wisconsin, failed to get into West Point in 1861, and instead wangled a place as adjutant of the 24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment at the age of seventeen, and was promoted to colonel (and nicknamed "The Boy Colonel") a year later.
Pennypacker, Galusha: Brigadier general, USV (February 18, 1865) Major general, USV (March 13, 1865) MOH, Battle of Fort Fisher (January 15, 1865) Youngest general in U.S. history Penrose, William Henry: First Lieutenant, USA (May 14, 1861) Brigadier general, USV (July 27, 1865) Postwar appointment, nominated January 13, 1866
General Galusha Pennypacker Memorial, Philadelphia, completed by Albert Laessle. Grafly was commissioned to create a memorial to Major General Galusha Pennypacker for Logan Square, Philadelphia. A valorous Civil War officer, Pennypacker had been promoted to general at age 22. [41]
Col Galusha Pennypacker. 47th New York; 48th New York; 76th Pennsylvania; 97th Pennsylvania; 203rd Pennsylvania; 3rd Brigade Col Louis Bell 13th Indiana; 9th Maine; 4th New Hampshire; 115th New York; 169th New York; Third Division (incomplete) 1st Brigade BG William Birney. 29th Connecticut (Colored) 7th U.S. Colored Troops: Col James Shaw
The attack, however, drew Confederate attention away from the river gate, where Ames prepared to launch his attack. At 2:00 p.m. he sent forward his first brigade, under the command of Brevet Brigadier Newton Martin Curtis, as Ames waited with the brigades of Colonels Galusha Pennypacker and Louis Bell.