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Union Generals

Commanders of the Union. The generals who led the armies of the United States to victory in the Civil War — from the famous to the forgotten.

153

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1861–1865

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Union Generals, A to Z

Every figure in the collection. 153 lives in all.

153 Lives

A

Allen, Robert Ames, Adelbert Anderson, Robert Augur, Christopher Columbus Averell, William Woods Ayres, Romeyn Beck

B

Bailey, Theodorus Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss Barlow, Francis Channing Barnes, Joseph K. Barry, William Farquahar Bartlett, Joseph Jackson Bayard, George Dashiell Belknap, William Worth Birney, William Blunt, James Gillpartrick Brown, Egbert Benson Buell, Don Carlos Buford, John Burnside, Ambrose Everett Butler, Benjamin Franklin Butterfield, Daniel

C

Canby, Edward R.S. Carr, Eugene Asa Carter, Samuel Powhatan Casey, Silas Chamberlain, Joshua L. Cooke, Philip St. George Cooper, Joseph Alexander Corcoran, Michael Corse, John Murray Cox, Jacob Dolson Crook, George Curtis, Samuel Ryan Custer, George Armstrong

D

Davis, Jefferson Columbus Dix, John Adams Doubleday, Abner

E

Eaton, Amos Bebee Egan, Thomas Wilberforce Ellet, Alfred Washington Elliot, Washington Lafayette Ewing, Hugh Boyle

F

Farnsworth, Elon John Farragut, David Glasgow Fessenden, James Deering Foote, Andrew Hull Forsyth, James William Foster, John Gray Foster, Robert Sanford Francis Preston Blair, Jr. Franklin, William Buel Fremont, John Charles French, William Henry

G

Garfield, James Abram Gillem, Alvan Cullen Gillmore, Quincy Adams Granger, Gordon Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grierson, Benjamin Henry Griffin, Charles

J

Judah, Henry Moses

K

Kearny, Philip Keyes, Erasmus Darwin Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson Kimball, Nathan

L

Leggett, Mortimer Dormer Logan, John Alexander Lyon, Nathaniel

M

McArthur, John McClellan, George Brinton McCook, Alexander M. McDowell, Irvin McPherson, James "Birdseye" Meade, George Gordon Miles, Nelson Appleton Milroy, Robert Huston

N

Nelson, William Bull

O

Ord, Edward

P

Parke, John Grubb Patterson, Robert Pleasonton, Alfred Pope, John Porter, David Dixon Potter, Robert Brown

R

Rawlins, John Aaron Reynolds, John Fulton Richardson, Israel Bush Rodgers, John Rosencrans, William S. Ruger, Thomas Howard

T

Terry, Alfred Howe Thomas, George Henry Torbert, Alfred T.A. Turchin, John Basil

U

Upton, Emory

W

Wadsworth, James Samuel Wagner, George Day Walcutt, Charles Caroll Wallace, Lewis Ward, William Thomas Warren, Governeur Kemble Washburn, Cadwallader C. Webb, Alexander Stewart Wild, Edward Augustus Wilson, James Harrison Wool, John Ellis Wright, Horatio Governeur

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