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Union Generals

Union Generals. By Sam Margush Carley Young. Introduction to Famous Union Generals. We are going to tell you about 8 famous Generals that served for the Union side during the Civil War. John Pope. Born in Louisville, Kentucky Close friend of Lincoln

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Union Generals

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  1. Union Generals By Sam Margush Carley Young

  2. Introduction to Famous Union Generals We are going to tell you about 8 famous Generals that served for the Union side during the Civil War

  3. John Pope • Born in Louisville, Kentucky • Close friend of Lincoln • Entered Military Academy at West Point, 1838 • Ordered that citizens working against Union to be shot as spies • Retired from military in 1886 • Died September 23, 1892

  4. Joseph Hooker • Born in 1814 • Graduated from West Point, served in Mexican War • 1863-commanded the Army of the Potomac • Remained on active duty until 1868 • Died in 1879

  5. Joshua Chamberlain • Born in 1828 in Maine • College professor before he went to war • Wounded when leading • He left the army in 1866 • Served as Governor of Maine, president of Bowdoin College, and president of a railway construction company • He died in 1914

  6. John Adams Dix • Born in Boscawen, NH 1798 • Father was a military man in Baltimore, MD • Served for first time at the battle of Niagara, also known as Lundy’s Lane • Made Chairman of the Union defense committee in NY during the Civil War • Died in NY in 1879

  7. John Gordon • Born in 1832 in Georgia, he was a lawyer and superintendent of a coal mine • Promoted to Major General in May 1864 • In 1865, he led an attack on Fort Stedman • After the war, he wrote a book, Reminiscences of the Civil War • He died in 1904

  8. William Sherman • Born in PA in 1820, and graduated from West Point in 1820 • Served in the Seminole War • He was wounded at the Battle Of Shiloh. • Three horses were shot under him • In 1886 he made his home in New York City, where he died on February 14, 1891.

  9. Philip Sheridan • Born in NY in 1831, he graduated from West Point in 1853 • He was made chief commissary of the Army of the Southwest • He was made the brigadier-general and in August 1862, he defeated Faulkner’s cavalry in Mississippi • He died in Massachusetts on August 5, 1888

  10. George Custer • Born in NY in 1839, and he graduated from West Point in 1861 • He fought in the Peninsular Campaign • After he was relieved of command in 1862, he returned to the cavalry duty of lieutenant • He died at the Battle of Little Big Horn, also known as “Cluster’s Last Sand”

  11. Conclusion There were a lot of Generals, on the Union side, fighting for slavery to be against the law. Unfortunately, we couldn’t tell you about all of them and every important thing that they did, but we hope that you learned a little about the Union Generals from the Civil War.

  12. Works Cited • www.civilwarhome.com/popebio.htm, 3/16 • www.nh.gov/nhdhr/publications/warheros/dixj.html, 3/16 • http://www.nps.gov/archive/pete/mahan/edbiosjc.html, 3/17 • http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/sherman/william-tecumseh-sherman.htm, 3/17 • http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/custer/george-custer.htm 3/18 • http://www.civilwarhome.com/sherbio.htm 3/19

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