Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant,who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864,he defeated Confederate forces under General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley,called "The Burning" by residents,was one of the first uses of scorched-earth tactics in the war. In 1865,his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.
Edward Porter Alexander was an American military engineer,railroad executive,planter,and author. He served first as an officer in the United States Army and later,during the American Civil War (1861–1865),in the Confederate Army,rising to the rank of brigadier general.
John Letcher was an American lawyer,journalist,and politician. He served as a Representative in the United States Congress,was the 34th Governor of Virginia during the American Civil War,and later served in the Virginia General Assembly. He was also active on the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute.
William "Extra Billy" Smith was a lawyer,congressman,the 30th and 35th Governor of Virginia,and a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. On his appointment in January 1863,at 65,Smith was the oldest Confederate general to hold field command in the war.
Landon Cabell Garland (1810–1895),an American,was professor of physics and history and university president three times at different Southern Universities while living in the Southern United States for his entire life. He served as the second president of Randolph–Macon College in Ashland,Virginia,from 1836 to 1846;then professor from 1847 to 1855,and then third president of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa,Alabama,from 1855 to 1867;and first chancellor of Vanderbilt University in Nashville,Tennessee,from 1875 to 1893. He was an apologist for slavery in the United States before the Civil War,but afterward became a vociferous spokesperson against slavery.
Carter Littlepage Stevenson,Jr. was a career military officer,serving in the United States Army in several antebellum wars and then in the Confederate States Army as a general in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
Joseph Chappell Hutcheson,Sr.,was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives.
David Wyatt Aiken was a slave owner,Confederate army officer during the American Civil War and a reconstruction era five-term United States Congressman from South Carolina.
John Randolph Tucker was an American lawyer,author,and politician from Virginia. From a distinguished family,he was elected Virginia's attorney general in 1857 and after re-election served during the American Civil War. After a pardon and Congressional Reconstruction,Tucker was elected as U.S. Congressman (1875-1887),and later served as the first dean of the Washington and Lee University Law School.
John Lee Buchanan was the second president of Virginia Tech and sixth president of the University of Arkansas.
Marcus Joseph Wright was a lawyer,author,and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was agent for collection of Confederate records for War of the Rebellion:Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, a U.S. War Department publication.
Lunsford Lindsay Lomax was the fourth president of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and an officer in the United States Army who resigned his commission to join the Confederate Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War. He had maintained a close friendship with his West Point classmate Fitzhugh Lee,and served under him as a brigadier in the Overland Campaign. He was then given command of the Valley District,where he supervised intelligence-gathering operations by Mosby's Rangers.
The First Corps,Army of Northern Virginia(or Longstreet's Corps) was a military unit fighting for the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. It was formed in early 1861 and served until the spring of 1865,mostly in the Eastern Theater. The corps was commanded by James Longstreet for most of its existence.
John Davidson Letcher was an American academic and an acting president of Oregon State University. He served as the acting president for 4 months in 1892,upon the death of the second president Benjamin Lee Arnold.
Events from the year 1807 in the United States.
Nathaniel Thomas Lupton was an American chemist and university professor. He served as the President of the University of Alabama from 1871 to 1874. Additionally,he served as State Chemist of Alabama.
William Wallace Bennett (1821–1887) was an American Methodist preacher,editor,author and administrator. He served as a Confederate Chaplain during the American Civil War and President of Randolph–Macon College.
Alfred Magill Randolph was the first bishop of Southern Virginia in The Episcopal Church.
Oregon State University Army ROTC is an ROTC Battalion assigned to Oregon State University in Corvallis,Oregon. Its mission is to train Cadets in basic military leadership and commission them as 2nd Lieutenants upon the completion of a bachelor's degree. Founded in 1873,the ROTC Battalion has continued to serve the nation and US Army Cadet Command and was given the nickname,"The West Point of the West" after it produced more commissioned officers than any other ROTC Battalion in the USA during World War II.
Henry Aubrey Strode was an American academic and school administrator who served as the first president of Clemson University.
