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Washington Lafayette Elliott (March 31, 1825 – June 29, 1888) was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He led a division of IV Corps at the Battle of Nashville in 1864. In 1866, he was awarded the honorary grade of brevet major general, U.S. Army.
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 ...
Crawford retired from the Army on February 19, 1873, and was given the rank of brigadier general, U.S. Army Retired. He authored the book The Genesis of the Civil War , published in 1887. He died in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , and was interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery .
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. Brevet Brigadier General Oliver Duff Greene - Medal of Honor recipient.
General Hospital No. 1, Limay, Philippines, April 1942 [10] 2nd General Hospital United States, 12 October 1945 [22] Landstuhl, Germany mid-1990s; General Hospital No. 2, Cabcaben, Philippines, April 1942 [10] 3rd General Hospital, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 16 September 1945 [23] 4th General Hospital, end of World War II [24] 5th General Hospital
William Jackson Palmer (September 18, 1836 – March 13, 1909) was an American civil engineer and veteran of the American Civil War.During the Civil War, he was promoted to brevet brigadier general and received a Medal of Honor for his actions.
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]
William H. Blair (July 16, 1821 – December 7, 1888) 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.