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Adelbert AmesDuring the massive assault by Confederate Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell on July 1, 1863, Ames's division commander, Brig. Gen. Francis C. Barlow, moved his division well in front of other elements of the XI Corps to a slight rise that is now known as Barlow's Knoll.
George Henry Thomas During Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's advance through Georgia in the spring of 1864, the Army of the Cumberland numbered over 60,000 men, and Thomas's staff did the logistics and engineering for Sherman's entire army group, including developing a novel series of Cumberland pontoons.
Pinckney Downie BowlesHe fought in the Seven Days Battles in June and July 1862 around Richmond, Virginia, a series of battles that resulted in a significant setback for Union troops attempting to capture the capital of the Confederacy.
J.E.B. StuartOn March 17, 1863, Stuart's cavalry clashed with a Union raiding party at Kelly's Ford.
Robert Sanford FosterDuring the early part of 1864 Foster commanded a brigade then division in Florida and when Gillmore's corps was transferred to the southeast Virginia, Foster was placed in command of the 1st Division, X Corps.
Henry Livermore AbbottOn May 3, 1863, Abbott fought with his regiment during the Second Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, which was part of the Chancellorsville Campaign.
Joseph HookerHe distinguished himself at the Battle of Williamsburg (as a result of which he was promoted to major general as of May 5, 1862) and throughout the Seven Days Battles.
Benjamin Huger (general)Gosport Yards early in the American Civil War ; Huger was responsible for its protection in 1862 Norfolk Naval Shipyard, known as the Gosport Yards early in the American Civil War ; Huger was responsible for its protection in 1862 Due to the combination of the naval action at Elizabeth City on February 10, the Battle of New Bern on March 14, the Battle of South Mills on April 19, and other Union landings during the Peninsula Campaign, Confederate authorities determined Huger could not hold Norfolk.
Jacob B. SweitzerSweitzer retained his brigade in the autumn of 1863, participating in the earlier stages of Bristoe Campaign and in the Mine Run Campaign.
James Conner (general)Then he led Major General John B, Kershaw's former brigade during the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1864.
Francis B. SpinolaSpinola assumed command of the New York'' Excelsior Brigade'' (the Second Brigade, Second Division, Third Army Corps), on July 11, 1863, following the Battle of Gettysburg as the Army of the Potomac strove to fill open command slots created by battle casualties.
Frazier BoutelleHe served on the staff of Gen. J. H. Wilson, under Gen. Philip Sheridan, and was mustered out on July 19, 1865.
John Stuart WilliamsHe organized a brigade of cavalry and helped resist Ambrose Burnside's invasion of eastern Tennessee in the autumn of 1863.
Lafayette McLawsDuring Robert E. Lee's 1862 Maryland Campaign, McLaws's Division was split from the rest of the corps, operated in conjunction with Maj. Gen. Thomas J.'' Stonewall'' Jackson, and captured Maryland Heights at Harpers Ferry.
John James McCook (lawyer)He was part of the army of Ulysses S. Grant in the Overland Campaign in Northern Virginia in the spring of 1864.
Edmund PettusAfterward during the 1865 Carolinas Campaign, Pettus was sent to defend Columbia, South Carolina, and participated in the Battle of Bentonville from March 19 -- 21.
William Greenleaf EliotIn 1861 he was part of a small group of men who helped Generals Nathaniel Lyon and Francis P. Blair to retain Missouri in the Union.
Benjamin Franklin KelleyIn 1862 he served under Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont, and the following year he was in command of the West Virginia department and pursued General Robert E. Lee during the Retreat from Gettysburg.
John Quincy MarrMarr was killed at the Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861), Virginia on June 1, 1861.
John Bell Hood In the spring of 1864, the Confederate Army of Tennessee, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, was engaged in a campaign of maneuver against William T. Sherman, who was driving from Chattanooga toward Atlanta.
Braxton BraggHe commanded forces in Pensacola, Florida, Alabama, and the Department of West Florida and was promoted to major general on September 12, 1861.
Abraham Lincoln After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.
Carl SchurzDuring the Civil War, although Brig. Gen. Schurz served with distinction, known for his personal bravery and military discipline, his'' German regiments'' in 1862 were heavily criticized by the press for retreating during the Second Battle of Bull Run at Chancellorsville.
Adam BadeauHe was wounded at Port Hudson, and after his recovery, in 1864 he joined the staff of Ulysses S. Grant as a Lieutenant Colonel.
Green Berry RaumIn 1863, he was part of the army of Ulysses S. Grant that invested and forced the surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Alfred GibbsThe Union forces sustained heavy losses again on June 12, 1864 and were turned back without achieving their objectives of doing significant damage to the Virginia Central Railroad and linking up with Union Maj. Gen. David Hunter and returning with his force to the Army of the Potomac.
James B. McPhersonHis adversary, John Bell Hood, wrote, McPherson, Kansas Fort McPherson in the Atlanta, Georgia, area was named in Gen. McPherson's honor on February 20, 1866.
Felix ZollicofferIn an effort to prevent a Union Army incursion into East Tennessee, Zollicoffer took the initiative and occupied Cumberland Gap on September 14, 1861.
Patrick CleburneDuring the campaigns of 1863 in Tennessee, Cleburne and his soldiers fought at the Battle of Chickamauga.
George P. DolesDuring the 1862 Maryland Campaign, his regiment was a part of Ripley's Brigade in D. H. Hill's Division.
George Armstrong Custer In 1864, with the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac reorganized under the command of Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, Custer (now commanding the 3rd Division) led his'' Wolverines'' to the Shenandoah Valley where by years end they defeated the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early in the Valley Campaigns of 1864.
Lawrence Sullivan RossDespite his illness, Ross never missed a day of duty, and in early 1864 he was promoted to brigadier general, becoming the ninth-youngest general officer of the Confederate Army.
Samuel Phillips LeeCommander Lee commanded the new steam sloop during the New Orleans campaign and subsequent operations on the Mississippi River in the first half of 1862.
James L. KemperAfter a gallant performance at the Battle of Seven Pines during the Peninsula Campaign, Kemper was promoted to brigadier general on June 3, 1862.
William Plummer BentonHe led the 8th Indiana in some the earliest fighting of the war during McClellan' s Western Virginia campaign of 1861, including the Battle of Rich Mountain.
James J. ArcherArcher was finally exchanged late in the summer of 1864, and rejoined the army.
James M. GogginHe served in this capacity during all of the First Corps' engagements, in both the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee, until the spring of 1864.
Thomas Welsh (general)On September 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam, after first being held in reserved (on account of its losses at South Mountain), Welsh's brigade was placed into action in the afternoon after Burnside exhausted his other troops capturing the bridge that now bears his name.
James A. CunninghamIn 1864, still in command of a company in the 32nd Massachusetts, Cunningham saw action in the Overland Campaign, a series of battles aimed at grinding down the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and taking the Confederate capital of Richmond.
Christopher C. AugurHe was severely wounded at Cedar Mountain in August 1862 while leading a division under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks.
Lucius M. WalkerWalker was commissioned brigadier general on March 11, 1862, and was posted at Kentucky Bend, with the command of the 40th Tennessee falling to Lt. Col. C. C. Henderson.
Albert ChavannesHe was part of the citizens-guard that defended Knoxville from a raid by Union general William P. Sanders in June 1863, and later provided an account of this raid in his book, East Tennessee Sketches.
James GwynGwyn was wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864, but returned to service after recuperating to take command of the Third, and eventually the First and Second Brigades of the First Division of the Union Army's V Corps.
George H. Steuart (brigadier general) Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, showing the'' Mule Shoe'' salient where Steuart was captured by General -LSB- -LSB- Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps on May 12, 1864 -RSB- -RSB- Soon afterward, at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (May 8 -- 21, 1864), Steuart was himself captured, along with much of his brigade, during the brutal fighting for the'' Mule Shoe'' salient.
Andrew L. HarrisHarris continued to lead troops through the war, although he suffered an embarrassing defeat in August 1864 at the Battle of Gainesville in Florida.
Edward OrdOn December 11, 1865, he received the commissions of lieutenant colonel and brigadier general in the regular army for the Battle of Hatchie's Bridge and brevet major general of volunteers for the assault of Fort Harrison, all dating from March 13, 1865.
Augustus Louis ChetlainIn January 1862 he rejoined his regiment, and led it during the expedition up the Tennessee River, was at the capture of Fort Henry on February 6, and led his command during the Battle of Fort Donelson from February 12 to 16.
George Hugh SmithAfter recovering in late 1862 Smith was ordered by the War Department to take several hundred newly exchanged soldiers to Colonel John D. Imboden for service in western Virginia, and was offered the command of them.
Benjamin Huger (general)He also served as a Confederate general officer during the American Civil War, noted for his controversial performances while in charge of Norfolk, Virginia, and during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign.
Arthur Middleton ManigaultIn April 1862, he was commanded to take his troops and report to General P. G. T. Beauregard with the Army of Mississippi.
Francis Amasa WalkerHowever, on August 25, 1864, as he rode to find Maj. Gen. John Gibbon at the front during the Second Battle of Ream's Station, Walker was surrounded and captured by the 11th Georgia Infantry.
Daniel Harvey HillOn July 22, 1862, Hill and Union Maj. Gen. John A. Dix concluded an agreement for the general exchange of prisoners between the Union and Confederate armies.
Burford R. Wiley In May 1863 Burford Wiley and his militia were in a situation they had never been in before.
George Henry ThomasIn the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of 1864, he achieved one of the most decisive victories of the war, destroying the army of Confederate General John Bell Hood, at the Battle of Nashville.
William H.C. WhitingBy the beginning of 1865, Whiting found himself defending the district against forces under Maj. Gen. Alfred Howe Terry.
Alfred TerryTroops under Terry's direct command were engaged at a skirmish at Grimball's Landing and later succeeded in capturing Fort Wagner in September 1863, but the following year the entire X Corps was sent north to Benjamin Butler's Army of the James in Virginia.
Philip SheridanIn 1865, his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at Appomattox.
Charles DoolittleHis regiment participated in the Peninsula Campaign, where he was wounded at the Battle of Gaines' Mill on June 28, 1862.
Abel StreightStreight's Raid in 1863 Steight led this force to Nashville, departed Tuscumbia, Alabama, on April 26, 1863, and then to Eastport, Mississippi.
Chester A. ArthurThe closest Arthur came to the front was when he traveled south to inspect New York troops near Fredericksburg, Virginia, in May 1862, shortly after forces under Major General Irwin McDowell seized the town during the Peninsula Campaign.
James Dalton IIOn arrival at New Georgia Island on July 22, 1943, Dalton's regiment was placed under the command of General Robert S. Beightler.
Seth BartonStationed at Kinston, North Carolina, for the remainder of the year, Barton was commanding one of the forward columns marching on New Bern, in February 1864, when he was censured after Pickett had issued a formal complaint against him for lack of cooperation.
Evander M. LawThe command situation in Hood's division, and Longstreet's Corps, deteriorated markedly through March 1864, with Law, Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws, and at least one other brigadier general arrested and court-martial ed by Longstreet ; Longstreet's charges against his subordinates were not sustained by the Confederate War Department.
John Bell HoodHood's Tennessee Campaign lasted from September to December 1864, comprising seven battles and hundreds of miles of marching.
Orland SmithHe returned to his command shortly before the Gettysburg Campaign, after Brig. Gen. Francis C. Barlow, who had led the brigade at Chancellorsville, was given command of the 1st Division on May 24, 1863.
Samuel BentonAt the Battle of Atlanta on Jul 22 1864, while commanding the brigade, Col Samuel Benton was severely wounded, causing the loss of his right leg.
Thomas L. RosserHe was distinguished again in the 1864 Overland Campaign, driving back a large force of Union cavalry and artillery at the Battle of the Wilderness.
Edward J. SanfordIn 1862, Sanford fled to Kentucky to join the Union Army, but fell ill before he could enlist (Sanford's account of his escape to Kentucky was later published as an appendix in Thomas William Humes's The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee).
James Camp TappanTappan commanded his brigade at the Battle of Pleasant Hill in Louisiana, defending against Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks' Red River Campaign of 1864.
Seth Ledyard PhelpsHe gained command of two additional timberclad gunboats, the USS'' Tyler'' and USS'' Lexington'', and as such was instrumental in the Union victory at the Battle of Fort Henry on the Tennessee River in 1862, in which he served as part of General Ulysses S. Grant's invasion force.
Henry C. HodgesIn 1863 Lt. Colonel Hodges was made the Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Cumberland, reporting to Major General Rosecrans, and participating in the Battle of Chickamauga from September 19 -- 20, 1863.
William W. LoringLoring took over command of Polk's corps temporarily when Polk was killed at Pine Mountain on June 14, 1864, and was replaced on July 7, 1864 by Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart.
Thomas F. ToonOn March 25, 1865, he was severely wounded during the Confederate attack during the Battle of Fort Stedman ending his active duty in the field remainder of the War.
Adolph von SteinwehrThe command of what was now called the XI Corps changed to Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard in 1863, and Steinwehr continued to command the division in the Battle of Chancellorsville and the Battle of Gettysburg.
Felix ZollicofferOn September 17, 1861, Zollicoffer sent a force through the Cumberland Gap along the Wilderness Road to drive the Union Army from Barbourville, Kentucky, relieve pressure on the recently established Confederate line at Bowling Green, Kentucky and thwart an expected drive by Union Brigadier General George H. Thomas into eastern Tennessee and the Cumberland Gap by forcing him to retain his force in Kentucky.
Cyrus BusseyIn November 1862 he received the command of a cavalry brigade in the Thirteenth Army Corps and was the Chief of Cavalry for Ulysses S. Grant's army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
Micajah WoodsIn 1863, he became a First Lieutenant in Thomas E. Jackson's Battery, Virginia Horse Artillery, and saw action at Gettysburg, New Market, and Cold Harbor.
Sam Jones (Confederate Army officer)The September 1863 Battle of Blountville was the initial step in a Union attempt to force Jones and his command to retire from East Tennessee.
Nathan George EvansHe was finally reinstated to command in the spring of 1864, but was severely injured in a buggy accident in Charleston as he was preparing to take his brigade north to the Petersburg Campaign.
Manuel TinioCol. Bias Villamor, now 2nd in command as a result of his good showing in the Pangasinan campaigns, gave the full count of the Tinio Brigade on January 1900 at 1,062 men, 64 of them officers.
John L. DavisAs executive officer of the gunboat he took part in engagements with the Confederate ram at the battle of the Head of Passes on 12 October 1861.
John C. TidballHe was appointed colonel of the 4th New York Artillery in August 1863, and commanded the artillery of the II Corps of the Army of the Potomac during the Overland Campaign, including the Battle of the Wilderness.
John McNeilIn the spring of 1863, McNeil held Cape Girardeau with 1,700 men against Gen. John Sappington Marmaduke's force of 10,000.
Wade Hampton IIIHe was promoted to lieutenant general on February 14, 1865, but eventually surrendered to the Union along with General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee at Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina.
Erasmus D. KeyesWhen Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign against Richmond was organized in the spring of 1862, Keyes led in unexceptionable fashion.
William E. JonesIn March 1862 Jones was given command of all cavalry in the Valley District.
Stephen D. LeeDuring the Atlanta Campaign, Lee fought at the Battle of Ezra Church on July 28 and was in command of the extended line in south west Atlanta in August 1864.
James W. ForsythHe was subsequently chief of staff of the Army of the Shenandoah during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 and chief of staff to the Union Cavalries during the Appomattox Campaign.
Rutherford B. HayesHayes and his brigade moved to the Shenandoah Valley for the Valley Campaigns of 1864.
Thomas Green (general)A few days later, on April 12, 1864, Green was mortally wounded by a shell from a Federal gunboat while leading an attack on the gunboats patrolling the Red River at Blair's Landing.
Clement H. Stevens Clement H. Stevens died at Atlanta, Georgia, July 25, 1864, five days after he was mortally wounded in battle.
Carter L. StevensonIn 1856 -- 57, Stevenson again was in combat in Florida, this time in the Third Seminole War, fighting in the battles of Big Cypress Swamp and Bowleytown.
Luther Prentice BradleyBradley fought in Tennessee at the Battle of Spring Hill on November 28, 1864, and was once again wounded.
Christian FleetwoodOn September 29, 1864, the 3rd Division, including Fleetwood's regiment, participated in the Battle of Chaffin's Farm on the outskirts of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
Wesley MerrittHe led the 1st Division of Cavalry to march from Shreveport, Louisiana, to San Antonio, Texas, as part of the Union occupation forces on an arduous 33-day 600-mile march between July 9 and August 11, 1865.
Hans Christian HegOn 19 September 1863, Colonel Heg led his brigade at the Battle of Chickamauga, where he was mortally wounded.
William McCandlessMcCandless' brigade, under immediate supervision by Crawford, launched a counterattack against the Confederates, mostly from William T. Wofford's command, across Plum Run Valley and up slope to the edge of the Wheatfield on July 2, 1863.
Samuel P. CarterIn July 1863, Carter was placed in command of the XXIII Corps cavalry division and continued campaigning across Tennessee throughout the year, engaging Confederate forces during the Battle of Blue Springs of the Knoxville Campaign.
Armistead Lindsay LongHe served Lee through the Seven Days, Northern Virginia Campaign of August 1862, Antietam Campaign, Fredericksburg Campaign, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Chancellorsville, and the Gettysburg Campaign.
George C. BurlingBurling was wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run in August 1862.