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Union army generals
- Ulysses S. GrantHiram Ulysses Grant was born on the 27th of April 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio. His father Jesse Root Grant worked as a leather merchant and held strong Whig…
- Rutherford B. HayesRutherford Birchard Hayes entered the world on the 4th of October 1822 in Delaware, Ohio. His father Rutherford Ezekiel Hayes Jr.
- Don Carlos BuellDon Carlos Buell was born on the 23rd of March 1818 in Lowell, Ohio. He entered a world where his father died when he was eight years old. His uncle James P.
- James A. GarfieldJames Abram Garfield was born on the 19th of November 1831 inside a log cabin in Orange Township, Ohio. His father Abraham had traveled from Worcester, New…
- Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson was born in a two-room shack in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the 29th of December 1808. His parents Jacob and Mary were illiterate tavern…
- Winfield ScottOn the 13th of June 1786, a boy named Winfield Scott was born near Petersburg, Virginia. He grew up on Laurel Hill, a plantation owned by his father William…
- Joseph HookerJoseph Hooker was born on the 13th of November 1814 in Hadley, Massachusetts. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837 with a rank of…
- John Pope (general)John Pope entered the world on the 16th of March 1822, in Louisville, Kentucky. His father Nathaniel Pope served as a prominent Federal judge in the early…
- William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman entered the world on the 8th of February 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. His father Charles Robert Sherman was a lawyer and justice on the…
- Irvin McDowellIrvin McDowell was born on the 15th of October 1818 in Columbus, Ohio. His parents were Abram Irvin McDowell and Eliza Seldon McDowell.
- John SedgwickJohn Sedgwick was born on the 13th of September 1813 in Cornwall, Connecticut. He attended Sharon Academy for two years before studying at Cheshire Academy…
- Quincy Adams GillmoreQuincy Adams Gillmore entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1845. He graduated in 1849 as first in a class of 43 members.
- George B. McClellanGeorge Brinton McClellan was born in Philadelphia on the 3rd of December 1826. His father George was a surgeon who founded Jefferson Medical College.
- Gordon GrangerGordon Granger was born on the 6th of November 1821 in the small town of Joy, Wayne County, New York. His mother Catherine Taylor died on the 17th of April…
- John SchofieldJohn McAllister Schofield arrived in the world on the 29th of September 1831. He was born in Gerry, New York to Reverend James Schofield and Caroline…
- Philip SheridanPhilip Henry Sheridan was born on the 6th of March 1831 in Albany, New York. He grew up in Somerset, Ohio as the third of six children to Irish Catholic…
- Benjamin ButlerBenjamin Franklin Butler was born on the 5th of November 1818 in Deerfield, New Hampshire. He grew up as the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and…
- Carl SchurzOn the 2nd of March 1829, Carl Christian Schurz was born in Liblar, a small town within the Rhine Province of Prussia. His father worked as a schoolteacher…
- David HunterDavid Hunter was born on the 21st of July 1802 in Troy, New York. His family lineage included Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence…
- Franz SigelIn April 1848, Franz Sigel led a militia of more than 4,000 volunteers toward the city of Freiburg. This group became known as the "Sigel-Zug" during the…
- George CrookGeorge R. Crook was born on the 8th of September 1828 to Thomas and Elizabeth Matthews Crook on a farm near Taylorsville, Ohio.
- George Henry ThomasOn the 31st of July 1816, George Henry Thomas was born at Newsom's Depot in Southampton County, Virginia. His family lived on a plantation that employed…
- Nathaniel P. BanksNathaniel Prentice Banks was born at Waltham, Massachusetts, on the 30th of January 1816. His father worked in the textile mill of the Boston Manufacturing…
- William W. AverellWilliam Woods Averell was born on the 5th of November 1832 in Cameron, New York. As a young boy, he worked as a drugstore clerk in the nearby town of Bath.
- Francis Amasa WalkerFrancis Amasa Walker entered the world on the 2nd of July 1840, in a prominent family home in Boston. His father was Amasa Walker, an economist and…
- George MeadeGeorge Gordon Meade arrived into the world on the 31st of December 1815, in the Spanish port city of Cádiz. He was the eighth child born to Richard Worsam…
- John C. FrémontJohn Charles Frémont was born on the 21st of January 1813, in Savannah, Georgia. His parents were Anne Beverley Whiting and Charles Frémon, a French-Canadian…
- Ambrose BurnsideAmbrose Everts Burnside was born on the 23rd of May 1824 in Liberty, Indiana. He entered a family of nine children with Scottish and English roots.
- Nathaniel LyonNathaniel Lyon was born on the 14th of July 1818, to Amasa and Kezia Lyon. His father worked as a sawmill operator while also farming the land they owned.
- William Babcock HazenWilliam Babcock Hazen was born on the 27th of September 1830 in West Hartford, Vermont. He moved to Ohio when he was three years old and spent his boyhood in…
- William RosecransWilliam Starke Rosecrans was born on a farm near Little Taylor Run in Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio. He grew up as the second of five sons to…