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The following list shows the names of substantive, full grade general officers (Regular U.S. Army or U.S. Volunteers) effectively appointed, nominated, confirmed and commissioned (by signed and sealed document) who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1]
There were many important Union generals during the American Civil War. Some, like Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Mclellan and Joshua.
There were hundreds of generals commissioned in the American Civil War on both the Union and Confederate armies. Some, like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman are household names.
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 ...
The Union Army employed hundreds of generals during the Civil War. This gallery provides an overview of several of the key Union generals who contributed to the Union's cause and helped guide its armies to victory.
A list of Civil War Union generals in order includes Winfield Scott, George McClellan, Henry Halleck and Ulysses S. Grant. The American Civil War began in 1861 and lasted until 1865, when the Confederacy's General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.
Generals of the Union Army 1861-1865: The Federal Register. NOTE—In the following pages will be found a short biographical sketch of every officer who attained the full rank of major or brigadier-general during the war. Those who received these titles by brevet only are not included.