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Union army generals
- Ulysses S. GrantUlysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on the 27th of April 1822, in Ohio, and by the time he died on the 23rd of July 1885, he had commanded the…
- Rutherford B. HayesRutherford B. Hayes became the 19th president of the United States under a cloud so thick that his critics called him "Rutherfraud" and "His Fraudulency" for…
- Don Carlos BuellDon Carlos Buell arrived at the Battle of Shiloh on the second day of April 1862 convinced that he had saved the Union cause.
- James A. GarfieldJames A. Garfield arrived at the presidency having never once sought the job. At the 1880 Republican National Convention in Chicago, delegates spent 35…
- Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson was acquitted in the United States Senate by a single vote. That vote, cast in May 1868, saved his presidency from becoming the first to end…
- Winfield ScottWinfield Scott stood six feet, five inches tall and weighed 230 pounds, and he spent the better part of six decades reshaping the United States Army from the…
- Joseph HookerJoseph Hooker is one of the most contradictory figures of the American Civil War. He was the general who commanded the largest, best-organized army the Union…
- John Pope (general)John Pope was serving on lighthouse duty when Abraham Lincoln won the presidency. The army chose him as one of four officers to escort the president-elect…
- William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman was born on the 8th of February, 1820, in Lancaster, Ohio, and by the time he died seventy-one years later, he had helped reshape…
- Irvin McDowellIrvin McDowell's name is permanently attached to one of the most humiliating afternoons in American military history. On a summer day in 1861, the Union Army…
- 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 arrived in Washington in the summer of 1861 as the man the Union had been waiting for. He had won the only land battles of the war…
- Gordon GrangerGordon Granger was born on the 6th of November 1821, in Joy, Wayne County, New York, and by the end of his life he had shaped two of the most consequential…
- 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, the third of six children of Irish Catholic immigrants from Killinkere parish in County Cavan…
- 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 SchurzCarl Schurz was born on the 2nd of March, 1829, in a small town called Liblar in the Rhine Province of Prussia, the son of a schoolteacher and a woman who…
- David HunterDavid Hunter rode on Abraham Lincoln's inaugural train in February 1861, shoulder to shoulder with the president-elect as the locomotive made its way from…
- Franz SigelFranz Sigel was born on the 18th of November 1824 in Sinsheim, in the German state of Baden, and by the time he died in New York City on the 21st of August…
- George CrookGeorge Crook was born on the 8th of September 1828 on a farm near Taylorsville, Ohio, and by the time he died in 1890, he had fought in two of the defining…
- George Henry ThomasGeorge Henry Thomas was born on the 31st of July, 1816, into a plantation family in Southampton County, Virginia, five miles from the North Carolina border.
- Nathaniel P. BanksNathaniel Prentice Banks spent his boyhood pulling empty bobbins from textile machines in the mills of Waltham and Lowell, Massachusetts.
- William W. AverellWilliam Woods Averell was born on the 5th of November 1832, in Cameron, New York, and before he was done, he would be the only Union general to win a major…
- Francis Amasa WalkerFrancis Amasa Walker died on the 5th of January 1897 after returning from a dedication ceremony deep in the wilderness of Northern New York.
- George MeadeGeorge Gordon Meade woke in the early morning hours of the 28th of June 1863, to a messenger at his tent. He assumed he was being arrested.
- John C. FrémontJohn Charles Frémont was born on the 21st of January 1813, the illegitimate son of a French-Canadian schoolteacher and a Virginia planter's daughter who had…
- Ambrose BurnsideAmbrose Burnside is best remembered for two catastrophic failures, but the word his name spawned is used every day by people who have never heard of him.
- 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 the 6th of September 1819, on a farm near Little Taylor Run in Kingston Township, Ohio, and by the time he died on the…