CDV General John G. Parke

(1827-1900) Graduated #2 in the West Point class of 1849. He was appointed brigadier general on Nov. 23, 1861, and commanded a brigade in Burnside's North Carolina expedition. He was promoted to major general on Aug. 20, 1862, and served as Burnside's chief of staff in the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg. In 1863 he commanded the 9th Corps and directed his men skillfully at Vicksburg and the capture of Jackson, Miss. He then took part in the Knoxville campaign against Gen. James Longstreet. Returning east in 1864, he did yeoman's work during...  

CDV General William H. French

(1815-81) Graduated from the West Point class of 1837. Fought in the Florida Wars and the Mexican War. Earned the brevets of captain and major for gallantry in Mexico. Appointed brigadier general of volunteers to rank September 28, 1861. He commanded a brigade of the 2nd Corps during the Peninsular campaign, and a division of the corps at Antietam. He also fought in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and commanded the District of Harpers Ferry during the Gettysburg campaign. French commanded the 3rd Corps during the Mine Run...  

CDV General William S. Rosecrans

(1819-98) Graduated #5 in the West Point class of 1842. Known as "Old Rosy," he was promoted to rank of brigadier general in 1861. He commanded a brigade under McClellan in the western Virginia campaign at the battle of Rich Mountain. In May 1862, he directed the left wing of General Pope's Army of the Mississippi in the advance on Corinth. When Pope was ordered east, Rosecrans took over command of the army and fought at Corinth and Iuka. He later commanded the Army of the Cumberland at Murfreesboro, Chattanooga and Chickamauga. He was promoted...  

CDV General George B. McClellan

(1826-85) Graduated in the West Point class of 1846 and fought in the Mexican War. Hailed at the beginning of the Civil War as the "Young Napoleon," he proved to be a brilliant military organizer, administrator, and trainer of men, but an officer totally lacking in the essential qualities of successful command of large forces in battle. He saw action at Rich Mountain, W.V., in the 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign and at the battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American history. He was defeated for the presidency in 1864 by Abraham...  

CDV General George G. Meade

(1815-1872) Graduated in the West Point class of 1835, and won a brevet in the Mexican War. He fought in the 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign and the Seven Days battles being very severely wounded at Glendale. He recovered in time to see action at 2nd Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Elevated to command of the Army of the Potomac, he defeated General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg and went on to fight in all of their battles culminating in the surrender at Appomattox Court House.

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CDV General Alfred Pleasanton

(1824-1897) Graduated in the West Point class of 1844. In 1846 he was awarded the brevet of first lieutenant for gallantry in the Mexican War. He later served on the Indian frontier and in Florida against the Seminoles as an officer of dragoons. Distinguished service in the 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign gained him promotion to brigadier general. He commanded a division of the Cavalry Corps in the Antietam, Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville campaigns. Promoted to major general in June 1863, he took over command of the Cavalry Corps and directed 10,000...  

CDV General Joseph F. Knipe

(1823-1901) Fought in the Mexican War. Was commissioned colonel of the 46th Pennsylvania Infantry, Aug. 1, 1861. He led his regiment in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign and at Cedar Mountain where he was wounded. In the Antietam campaign, Knipe commanded a brigade of the 12th Corps after the mortal wounding of General Joseph K.F. Mansfield. During the Gettysburg campaign, he served with the Pennsylvania Militia who were called out against the Confederate invasion. He took part in all the battles leading up to the fall of Atlanta commanding a division...  

CDV General William H. French

(1815-81) Graduated from the West Point class of 1837. Fought in the Florida Wars and the Mexican War. Earned the brevets of captain and major for gallantry in Mexico. Appointed brigadier general of volunteers to rank September 28, 1861. He commanded a brigade of the 2nd Corps during the Peninsular campaign, and a division of the corps at Antietam. He also fought in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and commanded the District of Harpers Ferry during the Gettysburg campaign. French commanded the 3rd Corps during the Mine Run campaign....  

CDV General William B. Franklin

(1823-1903) Graduated #1 in the West Point class of 1843. He won a brevet for gallantry in the Mexican War at Buena Vista. As an engineer officer, he was in charge of the construction of the new Capitol dome in Washington, D.C. He commanded a brigade at the 1st Battle of Bull Run, and led a division, and subsequently the 6th Corps, with distinction in the Virginia Peninsular campaign. During the Maryland campaign, he commanded the forces which penetrated Crampton's Gap at South Mountain, and his corps at Antietam. At the battle of Fredericksburg, he...  

CDV General Abram Duryee

Colonel of the famous Duryee's Zouaves

Wounded 5 times during the War Between The States!

(1815-90) He recruited a regiment of volunteers known as Duryee's Zouaves, which were mustered into the Union army as the 5th New York Infantry. He led his regiment in the first land battle of the war, at Big Bethel, Va., June 10, 1861, losing 5 killed and 16 wounded. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him a brigadier general of volunteers to rank from Aug. 31, 1861. He saw action as a brigade commander at Cedar Mountain, Thoroughfare Gap, and...  

CDV General Alfred N.A. Duffie

(1835-80) Born in Paris, he was the son of a French count. He graduated from the military college of St. Cyr in 1854 and won four decorations in the Crimea. Wounded in the battle of Solferino against the Austrians, he took leave of absence to come to the U.S. in 1859, where he met and married the daughter of a prominent Staten Island family. When the Civil War broke out he resigned his commission in the French army and offered his services to the U.S. On Aug. 2, 1861, he was commissioned captain of the 2nd N.Y. Cavalry and was promoted to major in...  

CDV General John A. Dix

(1798-1879) Joined the U.S. Army in 1813. Was New York Secretary of State, 1833-39, and was elected to the Senate in 1845. In January 1861, President Buchanan appointed him Secretary of the Treasury, and on Jan. 29, 1861, he made his famous American flag dispatch to a treasury official in New Orleans, "If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot," which became a clarion call to the North! Commissioned a Major General by Abraham Lincoln, on May 16, 1861, he was first on this list, thus outranking all other volunteer...