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.

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

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.

Maj. Gen. Polk ignored the problems of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson when he took command and, after Johnston took command, at first refused to comply with Johnston's order to send an engineer, Lt. Joseph K. Dixon, to inspect the forts.

Johnston kept the Union forces, now under the overall command of the ponderous Maj. Gen. Henry Halleck, confused and hesitant to move, allowing Johnston to reach his objective undetected.

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.

* Maj .- Gen. Tajeddin Mehdiyev ( December 1991-January 1992 )

* Maj .- Gen. Dadash Rzayev ( February – June 1993 )

* Maj .- Gen. Vahid Musayev ( August – September 1993 )

Gettysburg was his finest hour, but his relief by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade caused lasting enmity between the two men.

Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.

) His men were routed when they encountered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's corps, but by the following day, August 30, he took command of the division when Hatch was wounded, and he led his men to cover the retreat of the Union Army.

When his corps commander, Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds, was killed very early in the fighting, Doubleday found himself in command of the corps.

On July 2, 1863, Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade replaced Doubleday with Maj. Gen. John Newton, a more junior officer from another corps.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Hindman also charged Pike with mishandling of money and material, ordering his arrest.

Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North.

Prodded by President Abraham Lincoln, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker moved his army in pursuit, but was relieved just three days before the battle and replaced by Meade.

This case was investigated in 1947 in a war crimes trial, and of 30 Japanese soldiers prosecuted, five ( Maj. Matoba, Gen. Tachibana, Adm. Mori, Capt.

At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effectiveness of the theater commander in England, Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney.

* September 25 – American Revolution – Battle of Montreal: Patriot revolutionary forces under Maj. Ethan Allen attack Montreal, commanded by British General Guy Carleton.

On September 26 Maj. Gen. Kurt Eberhard, the military governor, and SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, the SS and Police Leader at Rear Headquarters Army Group South, made the decision to exterminate the Jews of Kiev, claiming that it was in retaliation for guerrilla attacks against German troops.

At dawn on September 17, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank.

: September 16, 1947-May 31, 1951 Maj. Gen. Terence Sydney Airey ( United Kingdom )

When Pickett returned to the Army in September 1862, he was given command of a two-brigade division in the corps commanded by his old colleague from Mexico, Maj. Gen. James Longstreet, and was promoted to major general on October 10.

His division first served in its III Corps under Maj. Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman, but Hooker assumed corps command ( III Corps of the Army of Virginia ) on September 6, after the Northern Virginia Campaign and the Second Battle of Bull Run, a severe Union defeat.

During his residence there, in September 1876, Jesse James and his gang of former Confederate guerrillas raided the town's bank, largely because of Ames's ( and controversial Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler's ) investment in it, but failed in their attempt to rob it.

* Maj. Ira J. Irwin ( September 1942-January 1943 )

* Maj. Robert H. Thomas ( September 1943-February 1944 )

President Abraham Lincoln succumbed to pressure from Tennessee politicians and ordered Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas to replace Buell on September 30, 1862.

In these roles, he was the subordinate of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who commanded the District of Western Tennessee and the Army of the Tennessee, from whom he received direction in the Iuka-Corinth campaign in September and October 1862.

Lionel C. McGarr, September 1960-July 1962 ; and Maj. Gen.

* Maj. Gen. Carlos Brewer ( September 1942 – August 1944 )

* Maj. Gen. Douglass T. Greene ( August – September 1944 )

* Maj. Gen. Roderick R. Allen ( September 1944 – July 1945 )

On the morning of September 1, Pope ordered Maj. Gen. Edwin V. Sumner of the II Corps, Army of the Potomac, to send a brigade north to reconnoiter ; the army's cavalry was too exhausted for the mission.

On September 10, 1863, Maj. Gen. Fred Steele, Army of Arkansas commander, sent Brig.

During this time of convalescence, on September 29, 1862, Davis got into an argument with his superior officer, Maj. Gen. William " Bull " Nelson, in the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky.

Price was able to seize the Union supply depot at nearby Iuka, but was driven back by Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans at the Battle of Iuka on September 19, 1862.

He was forced to surrender Montreal on September 8, 1760 to Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Amherst.

As Maj. Ellis was back at the lines, he was responsible in the planning of the St. Mihiel ( Champagne ) Offensive ( 12 – 16 September 1918 ) and in the Meuse-Argonne ( Champagne ) Offensive from 29 September to 10 October 1918 ) including the attack on and capture of Blanc Mont, and in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive from 31 October to 11 November 1918.

He was infuriated when Polk's division under Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Hindman failed to attack an isolated Union corps at Davis's Cross Roads as ordered on September 11.