Truman Seymour was a career soldier and an accomplished painter. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War,rising to the rank of major general. He was present at the Battle of Fort Sumter. He commanded the Union troops at the Battle of Olustee,the only major Civil War battle fought in Florida.
Henry Clay Pleasants was a coal mining engineer and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best known for organizing the building of a tunnel filled with explosives under the Confederate lines outside Petersburg,Virginia,which resulted in the Battle of the Crater on July 30,1864. The Union troops,however,failed in their opportunity to break the Siege of Petersburg.
Rufus R. Dawes was a military officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He used the middle initial "R" but had no middle name. He was noted for his service in the famed Iron Brigade,particularly during the Battle of Gettysburg. He was a post-war businessman,Congressman,and author,and the father of four nationally known sons,one of whom,Charles G. Dawes,won the Nobel Peace Prize and served as Vice President of the United States,and of two daughters. He was himself a great-grandson of William Dawes,who alerted colonial minutemen of the approach of the British Army prior to the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the outset of the American Revolution,and a maternal great-grandson of the Rev. Manasseh Cutler,who was instrumental in adoption of the Northwest ordinance of 1787,led the formation of the Ohio Company of Associates,and became "Father of Ohio University".
Roy Stone was an American soldier,civil engineer,and inventor. He served in the American Civil War,distinguishing himself during the Battle of Gettysburg,and took part in the Spanish–American War. He pursued a civil engineering career in a peacetime and became in 1893 the first head of the Office of Road Inquiry,which was the Federal Highway Administration's predecessor.
John Irvin Gregg was a career U.S. Army officer. He fought in the Mexican–American War and during the American Civil War as a colonel and near the end of the war as a brevet general in the Union army. In 1866,he was nominated and confirmed as a brevet major general of volunteers and a brevet brigadier general in the Regular Army,both to rank from March 13,1865.
Aaron Simon Daggett was a career United States Army officer. He was the last surviving brevet Union general of the American Civil War,and the last surviving general of any grade from the war,when he died one month shy of his 101st birthday in 1938. Daggett was nominated for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general,to rank from March 13,1865,by President Andrew Johnson on February 21,1866 and was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 10,1866. During the war,Daggett fought at West Point,Gaines' Mill,Golding's Farm,White Oak Swamp,Second Bull Run,South Mountain,Antietam,Rappahannock Station,Fredericksburg,Battle of Gettysburg,Battle of Mine Run,Battle of the Wilderness and Battle of Cold Harbor. Daggett was a brigadier general of volunteers in the Spanish–American War. He was appointed to the brigadier general grade to rank from September 1,1898 and was mustered out of the volunteers on November 30,1898. He was promoted to brigadier general in the Regular Army ten days before his retirement from the army on March 2,1901.
Benjamin Caspar Christ was an officer in the Union army during the American Civil War. He commanded a brigade in the IX Corps of the Army of the Potomac at several important battles,including the Battle of Antietam.
Richard Coulter,Sr. was an American Civil War Colonel and brevet brigadier general of volunteers in the Union Army,a businessman,and banker. During the Civil War he was colonel of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry,often rising to brigade command upon the wounding of superior officers. In 1866,he was nominated and confirmed as a brevet major general of volunteers to rank from April 1,1865.
Joseph Washington Fisher was an American lawyer,politician and judge from Pennsylvania who served as a colonel in the Pennsylvania Reserves during some of the most important battles of the Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1848 to 1849,the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 17th district from 1867 to 1868 and as chief justice of the territorial courts in the Wyoming Territory from 1871 to 1879.
Jacob Bowman Sweitzer was a Pennsylvania lawyer and soldier who commanded a regiment and then a brigade in the Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War. He and his men were significantly engaged at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg,where they reinforced and helped temporarily stabilize the Union defensive line on the second day of fighting.
William Stowell Tilton was an American businessman and soldier who led a regiment,and occasionally a brigade,in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. He and his men were heavily engaged in the Battle of Gettysburg,where Tilton's performance created controversy.
Joshua Thomas Owen was a Welsh American military officer who served as a Union Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He commanded the Philadelphia Brigade for part of the war.
John Irvin Curtin was a cousin of Pennsylvania governor Andrew Gregg Curtin. He led a regiment and then a brigade in the American Civil War.
William H. Blair was a Union Army captain and company commander in the 51st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment,and a colonel and commander of the 179th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. After his service he was appointed to the grade of Brevet brigadier general in recognition of his service at the Battle of Antietam.
George Perkins Hawkes was a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He commanded the 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry from April 1863 to July 1864. In March 1867,he was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general,United States Volunteers,to rank from March 13,1865,seven months after his resignation of his commission in the army.
Napoleon Bonaparte McLaughlen was a career United States army officer. He served throughout the American Civil War,winning brevet promotions to Brigadier General of both the U.S. Volunteers and the Regular Army.
Orpheus Saeger Woodward was a Union Army officer during American Civil War.
Daniel Woodall (1841-1880) was an American Union army officer during the period of the American Civil War. He served in the 1st Delaware Infantry Regiment,and fought in the Eastern Theater.
William Henry Penrose was a United States Army officer who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Penrose commanded the First New Jersey Brigade and ended the war with the rank of brigadier general.
William Cooper Talley was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County from 1874 to 1877. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War,fought in many of the key battles of the war and was promoted to brigadier general by brevet in 1865.
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