Gen. Henry Atkinson.

Gen. Felix Huston, challenging each other for the command of the Texas Army ; Johnston refused to fire on Huston and lost the position after he was wounded in the pelvis.

The most sensitive, and in many ways the most crucial areas, along the Mississippi River and in western Tennessee along the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River were placed under the command of Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk and Brig.

Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, who had been initially in command in Tennessee as that State's top general.

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant an excuse to take control of the even more important and strategically located town of Paducah, Kentucky without raising the ire of most Kentuckians and the pro-Union majority in the State legislature.

Gen. Felix Zollicoffer with 4, 000 men to occupy Cumberland Gap in Kentucky in order to block Union troops from coming into eastern Tennessee.

Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner with another 4, 000 men blocking the railroad route to Tennessee at Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Of these, 10, 000 were in Missouri under Missouri State Guard Maj. Gen. Sterling Price.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman that he became somewhat unnerved, overestimated Johnston's forces, and had to be relieved by Brig.

Gen. Don Carlos Buell on November 9, 1861.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

Gen. Grant attacked the fort.

Johnston now planned to defeat the Union forces piecemeal before the various Union units in Kentucky and Tennessee under Grant with 40, 000 men at nearby Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, and the now Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell on his way from Nashville with 35, 000 men, could unite against him.

Johnson's vintage independent streak put him very much at odds with professional military commanders, including Gen. Don Carlos Buell who left Nashville defenseless when he had to reinforce Grant at the Battle of Shiloh.

* Fuller, Maj. Gen. J. F. C., Grant and Lee, A Study in Personality and Generalship, Indiana University Press, 1957, ISBN 0-253-13400-5.

By the end of August 1861, Grant was given charge of the District of Cairo by Maj. Gen John C. Fremont, an outside Lincoln appointment, who viewed Grant as " a man of dogged persistence, and iron will.

Following Belmont, Grant asked Gen. Henry Halleck for permission to move against Ft. Henry ; Halleck agreed on condition that the attack be conducted with oversight by Union Navy Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote.

The Union advances achieved by Maj. Gen. Grant and Adm. Foote at Forts Henry and Donelson caused significant concern in the Confederate government.

With reinforcement troops from Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell and Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace's missing division, Grant succeeded in driving the Confederates back to the road from Corinth ; though he stopped short of capturing Beauregard's army, he was able to stabilize the Army of the Tennessee.

Gen. Halleck transferred command of the Army of the Tennessee to Gen. George H. Thomas and effectively demoted Grant to the hollow position of second-in-command of all the armies of the west.

As a result, Grant was again on the verge of resigning until Gen. Sherman paid a visit to his camp.

In December 1862, with the approval of Halleck, Grant moved to take Vicksburg by an overland route, aided by Charles Hamilton and James McPherson, in combination with a water expedition on the Mississippi led by Maj. Gen. Sherman.

When informed of the ominous situation at Chattanooga, Grant relieved Maj. Gen. Rosecrans from duty and placed Maj. Gen. Thomas in charge of the besieged Army of the Cumberland.

Grant gave the Department of the Mississippi to Maj. Gen. Sherman, and went east to Washington, DC, to make and implement a strategy with President Lincoln to decisively win the Civil War in 1864, when Lincoln was facing re-election.

Maj. Gen. Sherman would attack Atlanta and Georgia, while the Army of the Potomac, led by Maj. Gen. George Meade with Grant in camp, would attack Robert E. Lee's Army of Virginia.

Unknown to Robert E. Lee, Grant pulled out of Cold Harbor and stealthily moved his Army south of the James River, freed Maj. Gen. Butler from the Bermuda Hundred, and attacked Petersburg, Richmond's central railroad hub.

After Grant and the Army of the Potomac had successfully crossed the James River undetected by Lee and rescued Maj. Gen. Butler from the Bermuda Hundred, Grant advanced the Union army southward to capture Petersburg.

Gen. Grant, who had just arrived at his headquarters in City Point, narrowly escaped certain death when Confederate spies blew up an ammunition barge moored below the city's bluffs.

Maj. Gen. Edward Ord, however, was able to narrow the existing threats in Washington through the use of accurate army intelligence and persuaded Grant to reverse his arrest orders.

After his death these appeared again in Gen. Albert Pike ’ s Poems ( 1900 ) and Lyrics and Love Songs ( 1916 ).

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz presented the decoration to Powers ’ grandchildren, Trey Powers, 9, and Lindsey Berry, 29, in a Pentagon ceremony.

Kenney's deputy, Maj. Gen. St. Clair Streett, wrote in July 1946: " No major strategic threat or requirement now exists, in the opinion of our country ’ s best strategists nor will such a requirement exist for the next three to five years.

* Generation AO, the Always-On Generation ( or Gen AO ), was first used by Elon University professor Janna Quitney Anderson in 2012 to describe people born between the early 2000s and the 2020s whose lives have been influenced since their early childhood by connectivity afforded by easy access to people and the world ’ s knowledge through the Internet.

Growing up in modern China, China ’ s Gen Y has been characterised by its optimism for the future, newfound excitement for consumerism and entrepreneurship and acceptance of its historic role in transforming modern China into an economic superpower.

The remains of Gen. Rosecrans ’ headquarters is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A strong Confederate presence at Funkstown threatened any Union advance against Gen. Robert E. Lee ’ s position near Williamsport and the Potomac River as he retreated to Virginia after the Battle of Gettysburg.

Gen. John Buford ’ s Federal cavalry division cautiously approached Funkstown via the National Road on Friday morning July 10, 1863, it encountered Stuart ’ s crescent-shaped, three-mile-long battle line.

Unbeknownst to the Vermonters, Gen. George T. Anderson ’ s Confederate brigade now faced them, the first time opposing infantry had clashed since the Battle of Gettysburg.

Thus, as great a Mitzvah as it is, this test is considered trivial for someone of the spiritual stature of Isaac, who, as one of our forefathers, was likened to God ’ s “ chariot ” ( Gen. Rabba 47: 6 ) for he served as a vehicle for the divine traits of kindness, strictness, and compassion.

In December 2006, Gen. Thura Shwe Mann, Myanmar ’ s chief of general staff visited the Tata Motors plant in Pune.

Three years earlier, with a coup d ’ état, Gen. Obasanjo assumed power, and later was politically courted by the U. S. and the U. S. S. R., as part of the Cold War.

On August 16, 1777, Gen. John Stark ’ s 1, 500 New Hampshire Militia defeated 800 troops of German mercenaries, local Loyalists, Canadians and Indians under German Lt. Col. Friedrich Baum.

The women and children of Poultney fled the town on July 8, 1777, in the face of Gen. John Burgoyne ’ s army which was advancing from the north.

Gen. Santos City ’ s airport has one of the country ’ s longest runways.

Later the 369th was reassigned to Gen. Lebouc ’ s 161st Division to participate in the Allied counterattack.

# Sr. Lt. Gen Ngô Xuân Lịch ( Chief of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People ’ s Army, Standing Member of the Party Central Military Commission )

Person tall and commanding, demeanor retiring, with no palpable predilection for high station ; and, judging from appearance, one would suppose the White House offers no peculiar attractions to Mrs. Gen. T., and if her ‘ liege lord ’ would listen to her sage and wel-considered counsel, it is not unlikely he woud be content to remain as Gen. T ."

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Threatened with extinction, they echoed Maj. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe ’ s reply of “ Nuts ” to the German surrender ultimatum.

In 2005, the East Campus became home to the University ’ s Gen * NY * Sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics.

Gen. George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Tom's Brook, Early ’ s army launched a surprise attack against Sheridan at the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19.