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  • formation then brevet rank could be used to determine command of temporary units formed for special purposes. In particular brigadier did not become a...
    21 KB (2,989 words) - 11:45, 2 May 2024
  • Artillery. Brevet Brigadier General William S. Tilton Brevet Brigadier General Benjamin F. Tracy - Medal of Honor recipient. Brevet Brigadier General Henry...
    70 KB (9,255 words) - 19:38, 11 February 2024
  • addition, honorary brevet ranks of brigadier general were conferred in several organizations: A brevet brigadier general was awarded that brevet rank in the...
    188 KB (6,047 words) - 21:21, 24 February 2024
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    regiments from the brigades of Colonel (Brevet Brigadier General) Edgar M. Gregory and Colonel (Brevet Brigadier General) Alfred L. Pearson, who was later...
    126 KB (17,300 words) - 14:54, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Appomattox campaign
    regiments from the brigades of Colonel (Brevet Brigadier General) Edgar M. Gregory and Colonel (Brevet Brigadier General) Alfred L. Pearson, who was later...
    170 KB (22,694 words) - 14:30, 12 June 2024
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    regiments from the brigades of Colonel (Brevet Brigadier General) Edgar M. Gregory and Colonel (Brevet Brigadier General) Alfred L. Pearson, who was later...
    120 KB (16,310 words) - 13:43, 1 April 2024
  • list of American Civil War brevet generals that served the Union Army. This list of brevet major generals or brevet brigadier generals currently contains...
    281 KB (2,459 words) - 07:10, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Samuel Chamberlain
    Lincoln nominated Chamberlain for the award of the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general, U.S. Volunteers, to rank from February 24, 1865, and the U...
    11 KB (986 words) - 23:39, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sylvanus Thayer
    Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer (June 9, 1785 – September 7, 1872) also known as the "Father of the Military Academy", was an early...
    16 KB (1,549 words) - 18:13, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Needles Hallowell
    Johnson nominated Hallowell for the award of the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from June 27, 1865 for "meritorious services"...
    8 KB (935 words) - 15:37, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ely S. Parker
    terms at Appomattox. Later in his career, Parker rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general. When General Grant became president in 1869, he appointed...
    24 KB (2,566 words) - 01:10, 22 May 2024
  • during the Civil War. Brevet Brigadier General Horace Porter, USV – President General of the SAR from 1892 to 1897. Brevet Brigadier General Philip S. Post...
    31 KB (3,650 words) - 14:22, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for W. H. L. Wallace
    LaSalle County, Illinois, in Ottawa. He was the brother of future Brevet Brigadier General Martin R. M. Wallace. In 1851 he married Dickey's daughter...
    7 KB (741 words) - 02:24, 27 May 2024
  • to full actual grade general received brevet promotions first. Some actual brigadier generals received the brevet rank of major general. Therefore, it...
    41 KB (5,013 words) - 20:29, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Benjamin Bonneville
    Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he married a second time, to Sue Neis. Brevet Brigadier General Bonneville died at age 82 in 1878. He is buried in Bellefontaine...
    18 KB (2,157 words) - 23:29, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Dinwiddie Court House
    consisted of the First Division under Brigadier General Thomas Devin and the Third Division of Brigadier General (Brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer...
    80 KB (11,041 words) - 23:21, 6 April 2024
  • relieved by two large regiments from the brigade commanded by Colonel (Brevet Brigadier General) Edgar M. Gregory, the Union troops ultimately forced the Confederates...
    42 KB (5,717 words) - 07:41, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Society of the Cincinnati
    Twining Brevet Major General Nicholas Longworth Anderson Brevet Major General Henry Jackson Hunt – Union general in the Civil War. Brigadier General William...
    56 KB (6,558 words) - 16:30, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Livermore Abbott
    grade of brevet brigadier general, United States Volunteers, to rank from August 1, 1864, and the grades of brevet lieutenant colonel, brevet colonel and...
    31 KB (4,134 words) - 15:27, 30 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for John C. Tidball
    Abraham Lincoln nominated Tidball for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from August 1, 1864, and the United...
    30 KB (4,260 words) - 21:33, 4 July 2023
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