* 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

At 2: 00 in the afternoon he sent forward his first brigade, under the command of Brevet Brigadier Newton Martin Curtis, as Ames waited with the brigades of Colonels Galusha Pennypacker and Louis Bell.

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.

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.

* Hunt, Roger D. and Jack R. Brown, Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue.

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 ).

* Hunt, Roger D. and Brown, Jack R. Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue.

* Hunt, Roger D. and Brown, Jack R., Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue.

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.

* Hunt, Roger D. and Brown, Jack R. Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue.

* James Clark Strong ( 1826 – 1915 ), Union Brevet Brigadier General in the American Civil War

The arsenal was under the command of Brevet Major Peter V. Hagner, and the supervision of Brigadier General William S. Harney Commander of the U. S. Army's Department of the West.

He was also a first cousin of Brevet Brigadier General Moses B. Walker who served as an associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court.

The following day, Early found the works held by veteran soldiers of Major General Horatio Wright's VI Corps and Brevet Brigadier General William Emory's XIX Corps.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Smith was appointed a Brevet Brigadier General in the Virginia Militia on April 24, 1861, then a colonel in the 9th Virginia Infantry Regiment on July 7, 1861.

* Joseph Bloomfield Leake ( 1828 – 1918 ), American Civil War Brevet Brigadier General and U. S. District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois

He was the brother of future Brevet Brigadier General Martin R. M. Wallace.

* Hunt, Roger D. and Jack R. Brown, Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue.

* Hunt, Roger D. and Brown, Jack R., Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue, Olde Soldier Books, 1997, ISBN 1-56013-002-4.

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.

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 General of Volunteers ( March 29, 1865 )

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

On 5 November 1854 at the Battle of Inkerman, Crimea, Private Palmer, with two other men were the first to volunteer to go with Brevet Major Sir Charles Russell to dislodge a party of Russians from the Sandbag Battery.

Charles G. McCawley's son Charles L. McCawley also received a commission in the Marine Corps and went on to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal and to modify the enlisted Marines sword.

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.

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.

Chelmsford left behind five companies, around 70 – 80 fighting men in each, of the 1st battalion and one stronger company of around 150 men from the 2nd battalion of the 24th to guard the camp, under the command of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pulleine.

Commanding Officer: Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Pulleine, 1st / 24th Foot

A Royal Engineer, Durnford was superior in rank to Brevet Lt-Col Henry Pulleine, who had been left in control of the camp.