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In addition to the brevet awards to current (or future) full-rank United States Volunteers (USV) generals during the American Civil War, 1,367 other USV officers of lower ranks were awarded the rank of brevet brigadier general, brevet major general, or both, in the United States Volunteers, but not promoted to full-rank USV generals. [11]
On November 6, 1864, Brigadier General John Cook in Springfield, Illinois authorized Colonel Sweet to arrest two Confederate agents at Chicago. Sweet sent a message by hand delivery, not by telegraph, to Cook that said that Colonel Marmaduke of the Rebel army and other officers were in town plotting to release the prisoners.
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 ...
During the Civil War, Camp Butler was the second largest military training camp in Illinois, second only to Camp Douglas in Chicago.After President Lincoln's call for troops in April, 1861, the U.S. War Department sent then Brigadier-General William T. Sherman to Springfield, Illinois, to meet with Governor Richard Yates for the purpose of selecting a suitable site for a training facility.
After his release, he accepted a full colonelcy and a brevet as brigadier general. [1] When he returned to Centralia, he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, serving one two-year term. This was followed by his election as Illinois Treasurer, serving two two-year terms. He married Lucy A. Sanders in 1855.
On 5 June, the regiment returned to Mobile, Alabama, and on 15 July it was mustered out, and proceeded thence to Springfield, Illinois, where it was paid off and finally discharged at Camp Butler on 4 August 1865. [4] Colonel John I Rinaker was promoted brevet brigadier general 13 March 1865, for meritorious service. [5]
Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Clement Fletcher - Governor of Missouri. Brevet Brigadier General John P. S. Gobin – GAR Commander-in-Chief, 1897–98; and lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. Brevet Brigadier General Nathan Goff Jr. Brevet Brigadier General Edwin S. Greeley – President General of the Sons of the American Revolution.
The Life of General U. S. Grant, General of the Armies of the United States (co-authored with Charles A. Dana, 1868) China: Travels and Investigations in the Middle Kingdom—a Study of its Civilization and Possibilities, with a Glance at Japan (1887) Life and Services of Brevet Brigadier-General Andrew Jonathan Alexander, United States Army (1887)