Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

A small force consisting of B Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th ( 2nd Warwickshire ) Regiment of Foot ( 2nd / 24th ) under Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead was detailed to garrison the post, which had been turned into a supply depot and hospital under the overall command of Brevet Major Henry Spalding, 104th Foot, a member of Chelmsford's staff.

The following year, Brevet Major George Birch and two companies of the 7th Infantry Division followed the " Dawson Road " to the aforementioned site.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, US Army, 1865

* Joseph Roswell Hawley Four-term US Senator, two-term US Congressman, Governor of Connecticut Union Brevet Major General during the American Civil War.

Brevet Major General George A. Custer arrived in December to take charge of the new regiment.

Brevet Major James Henry Carleton's report, the first federal investigation of the incident, records Jacob Hamblin's account that the train was alleged to have poisoned a spring near Corn Creek that killed 18 head of cattle and resulted in the deaths of two or three people who ate the dead cattle.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, " the little lady who started this big war ," started writing her influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in Bowdoin's Appleton Hall while her husband was teaching at the College, and Brigadier General ( and Brevet Major General ) Joshua Chamberlain, a Bowdoin alumnus and professor, was responsible for receiving the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House in 1865.

Captain ( Brevet Major, Acting Lieutenant-Colonel ), 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards

* 1927 – 1929: Major ( Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel ) Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, CMG, DSO **

It was originally established as Fort Whipple, after Brevet Major General Amiel Weeks Whipple who died during the American Civil War in May 1863.

Promoted to the army ( as opposed to regimental ) rank of Brevet Major by the Prince Regent ( Sharpe's Enemy ).

Griffenstein had sent runners to inform her parents of her death, perhaps also sending a message to urge Black Kettle to come to talk with Colonel ( Brevet Major General ) William B. Hazen about making peace.

Having been promoted to Brevet Major, in 1935 he joined MT1, the policy making branch of the military training directorate.

Note: except where noted the following are based on Quarterly Report of November 4, 1868 from Brevet Major General J. J. Reynolds to Secretary of War

Shaw, by his reconnoitring skill and tactical judgment, was of the greatest assistance to Alten and to Wellington, who promoted him Brevet Major in July, and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1819.

Belknap was promoted Brevet Major General on March 13, 1865 as a reward for his bravery in the Atlanta Campaign.

He enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1848, originally as a musician, and advanced through the ranks of the artillery to become a First Sergeant in the 3rd US Artillery by the time he finished his service in 1858, serving under Brevet Major John F. Reynolds.

On October 5, 1856, Brevet Major Hunt commanded Company M, 2nd U. S. Artillery from Fort Leavenworth, that protected the polls at Eaton, Kansas, during the territorial legislature elections.

Webley 1868 RIC No. 1 Revolver cal 450 CFThere is a well-known story that a pair of Webley RIC Model revolvers were presented to Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer by Lord Berkeley in 1869, and it is believed that General Custer was using them at the time of his death in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Prepared by Companion Brevet Major Charles E. Belknap ... read at the stated meeting of January 4, 1893.

Immediately after the battle he was promoted to Captain and then Brevet Major.

* 1880-1881: Brevet Major Robert Warburton

* 1841 – Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Brevet Brigadier General ( d. 1913 )

* July 13 – Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General ( b. 1841 )

* November 13 – Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General ( d. 1913 )

In 1895, Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard and James W. Wilson of the Howard-Wilson Publishing Company of Chicago acquired rights to present Fair Oaks community, then primarily covered by citrus farms, from California Senator Frederick K. Cox and businessman Crawford W. Clarke.

* Elisha Marshall, Brevet Brigadier General for the Union Army in the American Civil War

Two of his nephews — Confederate Colonel and posthumous Brigadier General Samuel Benton of Mississippi and Union Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Thomas H. Benton, Jr. of Iowa — fought on opposite sides during the Civil War.

Established in July 1858 by a US Army detachment under the command of Brevet Brigadier General Albert Sidney Johnston, Camp Floyd was named for then Secretary of War John B. Floyd.

After Abraham Lincoln had been elected President in 1860, Fish spent time with Brevet Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, commander of the Federal Army.

Later in his career, Parker rose to the rank of Brevet Brigadier General, one of only two Native Americans to earn a general's rank during the war ( the other being Stand Watie, who fought for the Confederacy ).

When the Civil War broke out in spring 1861, Belknap joined Union Army and was eventually promoted Brevet Maj. General in 1865 for his gallantry during Maj. Gen. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign earlier in 1864.

Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer ( June 9, 1785 – September 7, 1872 ) also known as " the Father of West Point " was an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point and an early advocate of engineering education in the United States.

Brevet rank in the Union Army, whether in the Regular Army or the United States Volunteers, during and at the conclusion of the American Civil War may be regarded as an honorary title which conferred none of the authority, precedence or pay of real or full rank.

** Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel – March 1901

* 1 February – 7 March 1919: Captain ( Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel ; Temp.

* 7 March – June 1919: Captain ( Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel ) Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, DSO *

Brevet Major William Stephen Raikes Hodson ( 10 March 1821 – 11 March 1858 ) was a British leader of irregular light cavalry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ( also known as the Indian Mutiny or the Sepoy Mutiny ).

On arrival in America, 1862, Keogh accepted a commission in the volunteers and was awarded the rank of Captain on April 9, 1862, then Major of volunteers, April 7, 1864 ; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel volunteers on March 13, 1865, and was honorably mustered out September 1, 1866.

On August 24, 1865, Brevet Maj. Gen Belknap was mustered out of the U. S. Army.

On May 8, 1865, Colonel ( and by this time, Brevet Brigadier General ) Sweet received the order to release all prisoners except those above the rank of colonel.