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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.

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Artists ' associations such as Les Nabis and the Incoherents were formed and individuals including Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Brissaud, Alfred Jarry, Gen Paul, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Suzanne Valadon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Maurice Utrillo, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen, and African-American expatriates such as Langston Hughes worked in Montmartre and drew some of their inspiration from the area.
Custer fell into the orbit of Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton, who was commanding a cavalry division.
Gen. Alfred Terry determined there were no available officers of rank to take command, Sherman ordered him to make an appointment.
Gen. Alfred Mouton.
* Sons of Confederate Veterans, Gen. Alfred E. Jackson Camp # 2159
Gen. Alfred B. Smith of the Eastern Georgia Circuit court, stated White was ineligible to hold office since White was a black man.
The Sioux retreated further, but again faced an American army in 1864 ; this time, Gen. Alfred Sully led a force from near Fort Pierre, South Dakota, and decisively defeated the Sioux at the Battle of Killdeer Mountain on July 28, 1864.
Maj. Gen. Alfred Terry ( painting / excerpt 1890 ): leading the Union Army to capture Fort Fisher in January 1865.
Gen. Alfred H. Terry and participated in the second battle of Fort Fisher and the capture of Wilmington.
After the Battle of Chancellorsville, Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton was given command of the Cavalry Corps, although Hooker later agreed that Buford would have been the better choice.
To his embarrassment, news of the fall of Fort Fisher came during the committee hearings — a follow-up expedition led by Maj. Gen. Alfred H. Terry captured the fort on January 15 — and Butler's military career was over.
In the spring of 1863, he was promoted to command of the 1st Brigade of Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton's cavalry division in the Army of the Potomac, but he was away from the Army on medical leave during the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Gen. Alfred Sully ’ s expedition against the Sioux Indians in Dakota Territory on June 28, 1864.
Gen. Alfred Sully.
Young's replacement as governor of Utah territory Alfred Cumming was escorted by a contingent of 2, 500 Federal troops led by Gen. Albert Johnston as part of what was called the Utah Expedition.
It was fought at the beginning of the Gettysburg Campaign by the Union cavalry under Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton against Maj. Gen. J. E. B.
Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton, commanding the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac, had organized his combined-armed forces into two " wings ," under Brig.
Gen. Alfred M. Scales was almost completely destroyed by Union artillery canister fire.
Gen. Alfred Pleasonton because of the latter's inability to penetrate Maj. Gen. J. E. B.
Stuart, screening Robert E. Lee's invasion route, sparred with Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton's Union cavalry.
Union cavalry commander Alfred Pleasonton, frustrated by Stuart's excellent usage of dismounted cavalry hiding behind stone walls, on June 20 asked for and received infantry support from Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's V Corps.
As Stuart headed north in an effort to link with Lee, Union cavalry commander Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton, riding towards Pennsylvania to the west of Stuart, ordered his divisions to fan out across a wide swath, keeping an eye out for Confederates.

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Much of the fighting at Fort Anderson and Town Creek was directed by Gen. CoxCox pursued Hagood from Fort Anderson, and on February 19 caught up to the Town Creek Line while Terry's remaining troops advanced up the east bank of the river towards the Confederate's Sugar Loaf Line manned by Gen. Hoke's troops.
Gen. William Terry's brigade ( which itself was the remnant of the Stonewall Division ) in the Valley Campaigns of 1864 under Jubal A.
Schofield, with the units from Alfred Terry's Expeditionary Corps, moved north from Wilmington, while Maj. Gen. Jacob D. Cox took his XXIII Corps division and sailed up the coast and landed at New Bern, North Carolina.

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Developed originally by Gen. Elwood Quesada of IX TAC for the First Army at Operation Cobra the technique of " armored column cover " whereby close air support was directed by an air traffic controller in one of the attacking tanks was used extensively by the Third Army.
Gen. George Crook's column of ten companies ( A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, L, and M ) of the 3rd Cavalry, five ( A, B, D, E, and I ) of the 2nd Cavalry, two companies ( D and F ) of the 4th Infantry, and three companies ( C, G, and H ) of the 9th Infantry, moved north from Fort Fetterman in the Wyoming Territory on May 29, marching toward the Powder River area.
Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led a column of men into Union-controlled Brentwood intent on capturing the section of the Nashville & Decatur Railroad.
Thomas launched a surprise amphibious landing at Brown's Ferry on October 27 that opened the Tennessee River by linking up Thomas's Army of the Cumberland with a relief column of 20, 000 troops from the Eastern Theater's Army of the Potomac, led by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.
The column, with a total of 1, 400 men under Col. Dumont ( with the assistance of Col. Frederick W. Lander, volunteer aide-de-camp to Gen. McClellan ), would march directly south from Webster on the Turnpike.
The largest column, 11, 500 men under Jackson, was to recross the Potomac and circle around to the west of Harpers Ferry and attack it from Bolivar Heights, while the other two columns, under Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws ( 8, 000 men ) and Brig.
*' English As It IS Broken ' ( The Sunday Times, Ministry of Education ): A new weekly column was introduced in the Gen Y page of the Sunday Times.
A large column of remnants of the Hammurabi Division attempting to withdraw to safety in Baghdad were also engaged and obliterated few days later ( March 2 ) deep inside the Iraqi territory by Gen. McCaffrey's forces in a controversial post-war " turkey shoot "- style incident known as Battle of Rumaila.
Moving on the post from another direction, Quantrill's column happened to encounter a Union detachment escorting Maj. Gen. James G. Blunt, who was moving his command headquarters from Fort Scott eastward to Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Taking the Union forces by surprise, Quantrill's column killed most of the detachment, including the military band, Maj. Henry Z. Curtis ( son of Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis ), and Johnny Fry ( first official westbound rider of the Pony Express ), a total of 103 men.
While Longstreet personally operated against Suffolk, Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill led a column which moved against Federal garrisons at New Berne and Washington, North Carolina.
The right column ( Army of the Tennessee ) was under the command of Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard and the left column ( Army of Georgia ) was under Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum.
After the Battle of Fort Stevens on July 11, a Union column, consisting of the VI Corps and elements of the XIX Corps under Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright, pursued Lt. Gen. Jubal Early's Army of the Valley as it withdrew from the environs of Washington, D. C., through Loudoun County, Virginia.
Tunner and Love's plan was reviewed by the ATC headquarters, and forwarded by commander Gen. Harold L. George to Arnold, who was fully aware of it and gave it his blessing, after Mrs. Roosevelt had suggested a similar idea in a newspaper column.
Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, with a powerful column, approached the town.
Sherman denied the story and in fact the relief column under Maj. Gen. Jacob D. Cox did not arrive until two days after the battle.
On June 24, the Confederate cavalry under Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton attacked the column of Brig.
( Grant's second column approaching Iuka, commanded by Maj. Gen. Edward Ord, did not participate in the battle as planned.
Gen Khadim moved his HQ from Dhaka to Chittagong cantonment next, and sent a column of 20 Baluch to locate the 53rd Brigade troops, but this column clashed with the EPR troops north of the city and got bogged down.

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