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Major general, USV (March 13, 1865) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1880–1887) Brother of Charles Robert Woods Brother-in-law of Willard Warner: Wool, John Ellis: Major general, USA (May 16, 1862) Retired August 1, 1863 Oldest Civil War general in active service (b. February 29, 1784) Wright, George: Colonel, USA (1855) Brigadier ...
This is a list of American Civil War brevet generals that served the Union Army.This list of brevet major generals or brevet brigadier generals currently contains a section which gives the names of officers who held lower actual or substantive grades (often referred to as ranks) in the Union Army, were not promoted to full actual or substantive grade generals during or immediately after the ...
The list of American Civil War (Civil War) generals has been divided into five articles: an introduction on this page, a list of Union Army generals, a list of Union brevet generals, a list of Confederate Army generals and a list of prominent acting Confederate States Army generals, which includes officers appointed to duty by E. Kirby Smith, officers whose appointments were never confirmed or ...
To this end, the Union army fought and ultimately triumphed over the efforts of the Confederate States Army. Over the course of the war, 2,128,948 men enlisted in the Union army, [2] including 178,895, or about 8.4% being colored troops; 25% of the white men who served were immigrants, and a further 18% were second-generation Americans.
(1861–1941) Adjutant General with rank of major general, 6 Oct 1917–26 Aug 1918; National Army major general, 27 Aug 1918–30 Jun 1920; retired as major general, 22 Jul 1921. 95: John L. Chamberlain: 6 Oct 1917 6 Nov 1921 4 (1858–1948) Inspector General with rank of major general, 6 Oct 1917–20 Feb 1921 and 28 Mar 1921–6 Nov 1921. 96
Union brigade-level officers could receive two different types of Federal commissions: U.S. Army or U.S. Volunteers (ex: Major General, U.S.A. as opposed to Major General, U.S.V.). While most Civil War generals held volunteer or brevet rank, many generals held both types of commission; regular rank was considered superior. [7]
Clem was the last veteran of the American Civil War serving in the U.S. Army at the time of his retirement, [2] though other Civil War veterans, including Peter Conover Hains, re-entered the service in 1917 for World War I. On August 29, 1916, Clem was promoted on the retired list to the rank of major general. [6]
Pages in category "Union army generals" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 738 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .