 Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All Major General Don Carlos Buell stood among the senior Northern commanders early in the Civil War, led the Army of the Ohio in the critical Kentucky theater in 1861-62, and helped shape the direction of the conflict during its first years Provides short but helpful biographies of all the major Generals, politicians and characters in the Civil War. Gives a complete summary bio on the commands or political career of each person such as all their commands, rank and terms of service. |
Military History. --- Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1837, to July 1, 1841, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to Second Lieut., 3d Infantry, July 1, 1841. Served: in the Florida War, 1841-42; in garrison at Ft. Stansbury, Fla., 1843, -- and Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 1843-44; on frontier duty at Ft. Jesup (Camp Wilkins), La., 1844-45; in Military Occupation of Texas, 1845-46; in the War with Mexico, 1846-48, being engaged in the Battle of Palo Alto, May 8, 1846, -- Battle of Resaca-de-la-Palma, (First Lieut., 3d Infantry, June 18, 1846, to Mar. 5, 1851) May 9, 1846, -- Battle of Monterey, Sep. 21-23, 1846, (Bvt. Capt., Sep. 23, 1846, for Gallant and Meritorious Conduct in the Several Conflicts at Monterey, Mex.) --Siege of Vera Cruz, Mar. 9-29, 1847, -- Battle of Cerro Gordo, Apr. 17-18, 1847, -- Skirmish of Ocalaca, Aug. 16, 1847, -- Battle of Contreras, Aug. 19-20, 1847, -- Battle of Churubusco, Aug. 20, 1847, where he was severely wounded, (Bvt. Major, Aug. 20, 1847, for Gallant and Meritorious Conduct in the Battles of Contreras and Churubusco, Mex.) and as Adjutant, 3d Infantry, Feb. 15, 1847, to Jan. 25, 1848; and as (Bvt. Captain, Staff – Asst. Adjutant-Gen., Jan. 25, 1848) Asst. Adjutant-General, in the Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, D. C., July 1848, to Jan., 1849, -- of the 6 th Military Department, Jan. 13, 1849, to Apr. 25, 1851, -- of the Department of New Mexico, July 19, to Sept. 20, 1851, -- of the 8 th Military Department, at Corpus Christi, Tex., Oct. 30, 1852, to Oct. 31, 1855, -- of the Department of Texas, Oct. 31, 1855, to dec. 11, 1856, -- of the Department of the East, headquarters, Troy, N. Y., Feb. 19 to Sep. 14, 1857, -- of the Department of the West, headquarters, St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 4, 1857, to May 17, 1858, -- of the Department of Utah, May 3 to June 29, 1858, -- of the Department of the West, headquarters, St. Louis, Mo., June 27, 1858, to Feb. 14, 1859, -- in the War Department, on Special service, Feb. 14, 1859, to Mr. 20, (Bvt. Major, Staff – Asst. Adjutant-Gen., Feb. 25, 1861) (Lieut.-Colonel, Staff – Asst. Adjutant-Gen., May 11, 1861) 1861, -- and of the Department of the Pacific, headquarters, San Francisco, Cal., May 20, to Aug. 9, 1861. Served during the Rebellion of the Seceding States, 1861-64: in the (Brig.-General, U. S. Volunteers, May 17, 1861) Defenses of Washington, D. C., Sep. 14, to Nov. 9, 1861; in command of the Department of the Ohio, Nov. 15, 1861, to Mar. 11, 1862; in the Tennessee and Mississippi Campaign, in command of the Army of the Ohio, Mar. 11 to June 26, 1862, being engaged in the March to Pittsburg Landing, (Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 21, 1862) Ten., Mar.-Apr., 1852, -- Battle of Shiloh, Apr. 6-7, 1862, -- and Advance upon and Siege of Corinth, Apr. 9 to May 30, 1862; in command of the Army of the Ohio, in Operations in North Alabama, and movement to Louisville, Ky., June to Sep., 1862; in command of the (Colonel, Staff – Asst. Adjutant-General, July 17, 1862) Army of the Ohio, in the Advance into Kentucky, Oct., 1862; before a Military Commission to Investigate his Campaign in Tennessee and Kentucky, Nov. 24, 1862, to May 10, 1863; and in waiting orders at (Mustered Out of Volunteer Service, May 23, 1864) Indianapolis, Ind., May 10, 1863, to June 1, 1864. Resigned, June 1, 1864. Civil History. --- President of Green River, Ky., Iron Works, 1865-70. Coal Mining, on Green River, Ky., since 1870. U. S. Pension Agent, Louisville, Ky., 1885-89. P. O. Paradise, Muhlenburg, County, Ky.
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 In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War The professor-turned-soldier who led the Twentieth Maine Regiment to glory at Gettysburg, earned a battlefield promotion to brigadier general from Ulysses S. Grant at Petersburg, and was wounded six times during the course of the Civil War |
 Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914 Known as the hero of Little Round Top and the commanding officer who accepted the Confederates' surrender at Appomattox. |
 Grant's Lieutenants: From Chattanooga to Appomattox This new volume assesses Union generalship during the final two years of the Civil War. Steven Woodworth, one of the war's premier historians, is joined by a team of scholars-- Grimsley, Marszalek, and Hess, among others--who critique Ulysses S. Grant's commanders |
 Fighting Joe Hooker Union general Joseph Hooker assumed command of an army demoralized by defeat and diminished by desertion. Acting swiftly, the general reorganized his army, routed corruption among quartermasters, improved food and sanitation, and boosted morale by granting furloughs and amnesties. The test of his military skill came in the battle of Chancellorsville. It was one of the Union Army's worst defeats |
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