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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.
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 **
* Brevet Major General of Volunteers ( March 29, 1865 )
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

Brevet and James
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.
* James Forney, recipient of the Marine Corps Brevet Medal
* James Clark Strong ( 1826 – 1915 ), Union Brevet Brigadier General in the American Civil War
In December 1864, just before the Battle of Nashville, a formal cavalry corps was finally organized, under Brevet Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson.
Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard and James W. Wilson of the Howard-Wilson Publishing Company of Chicago acquired rights to sell land from California Senator Frederick K. Cox and businessman Crawford W. Clarke in 1895.

Brevet and Henry
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.

Brevet and first
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.
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.
He was also a first cousin of Brevet Brigadier General Moses B. Walker who served as an associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
At dawn on April 9, the Confederate Second Corps under Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon attacked Sheridan's cavalry and quickly forced back the first line under Brevet Brig.
The first post commander was Brevet Maj. Gen. Benjamin Grierson and the first Indian agent was Colonel Albert Gallatin Boone, grandson of Daniel Boone.
His equestrian statues are excellent, notably that of George Washington ( 1856 ) in Union Square, New York City, which was the second equestrian statue made in the United States, following by three years that of Andrew Jackson in Washington, D. C. by Clark Mills ( 1815 – 1883 ), and of Brevet Lt. General Winfield Scott ( 1874 ) in Washington, D. C .. Brown was one of the first in America to cast his own bronzes.
The third lieutenant, Georges Nelis, was the new force's first aviation candidate, gaining Brevet No. 28 on 21 December.
Shortly after the American Civil War, Brevet Maj. Gen. John G. Foster, a West Point trained engineer, became one of the first acknowledged experts in underwater demolition.

Brevet and was
The commanding officer at Fort Humbolt, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Robert C. Buchanan, a strict disciplinarian, had reports that Grant was intoxicated off duty while seated at the pay officer's table.
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.
Because of his record in China, Butler became eligible for the Marine Corps Brevet Medal when it was created in 1921, and was one of only 20 Marines to receive it.
When the Spanish-American War of 1898 began, he was named a Lieutenant-Colonel, and in 1901 a Brevet ( honorary or acting ) Brigadier-General.
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.
On August 24, 1865, Brevet Maj. Gen Belknap was mustered out of the U. S. Army.
For outstanding valor and leadership in that action, Lt. Neville was awarded the Brevet Medal, following its ' creation in 1921, and was promoted to the brevet rank of captain.
Albert Augustus Pope ( May 20, 1843 – August 10, 1909 ) was a Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel who founded the Pope Manufacturing Company in 1877.
He was mustered out as a Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel.
The Marine Corps Brevet Medal, also known as the Brevet Medal, was a military decoration of the United States Marine Corps ; it was created in 1921 as a result of Marine Corps Order Number 26.

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