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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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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.
Gen. Edward Ferrero to lead the assault.
Gen. Edward Aritonang says police have not named any suspects but are focusing investigation on ten persons.
Gen. Edward Aritonang says Amrozi prime suspect in bombing.
* Longacre, Edward G. A Soldier to the Last: Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray.
Gen. Edward Lansdale, the document listed methods, and outlined plans, that the authors believed would garner public and international support for U. S. military intervention in Cuba.
Gen. Edward Lansdale, the commander of the Operation Mongoose project.
Gen. George Crook, and Col. Edward M. McCook.
The year-long course was unpleasant for Arnold because of doctrinal differences with the school's commandant, Maj Gen. Edward L. King, but Arnold graduated with high marks in June 1929.
# Francis Anthony Russell ( b. 1948 ), great-grandson of Lord Arthur John Edward Russell, younger brother of the 9th Duke and second son of Maj .- Gen. Lord Sir George William Russell, second son of the 6th Duke
Gen. Edward Hand reported a small force fleeing towards Newtown and received permission to pursue.
The fresh division under Maj. Gen. Edward " Allegheny " Johnson was just arriving, but Ewell also received intelligence that heavy Union reinforcements were arriving on the York Pike from the east, potentially threatening his flank.
Paderewski by Lt. Gen. Edward Rowny
His funeral was attended by such notables as Gen. William Westmoreland, Maj. Gen. Edward Lansdale, Lt. Col. Lucien Conein, Senator Edward Kennedy, and Daniel Ellsberg.
** Maj. Gen. Edward H. Plummer ( 25 August 1917 )
** Maj. Gen. Edward H. Plummer ( 19 February 1918 )
* Commanders: Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond ( October 1942 – August 1945 ), Brig.
The division's commander, Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond, was for a time, highly regarded by George Marshall, who was a fellow Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ) graduate, and was Army Chief of Staff during World War II.
Gen. R. H. Noble ( 12 June 1918 ), Maj. Gen. G. W. Read ( 14 June 1918 ), Maj. Gen. Samson L. Faison ( 15 June 1918 ), Maj. Gen. Edward Mann Lewis ( 18 July 1918 ), Brig.

Gen and Ferrero's
Gen. Edward Ferrero's 1st Division, IX Corps, moved up to attack, which he did at 5: 00 p. m. Ferrero's men broke into the Confederate line, causing heavy casualties, and advanced almost to the enemy's rear before being checked.

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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.
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. Charles F. Smith's division and occupied Fort Heiman across the river from Fort Henry.
On December 13, the " grand division " of Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin was able to pierce the first defensive line of Confederate Lt. Gen. Stonewall Jackson to the south, but was finally repulsed.
Gen. George W. Getty's division ( VI Corps ) and Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps on the Orange Plank Road.
Longstreet's First Corps gave up the division of Maj. Gen. Richard H. Anderson during the reorganization, leaving him with the divisions of Lafayette McLaws, George Pickett, and John Hood.
Gen. Evander M. Law's brigade ( Hood's division ) to reach the field before he advanced any of his other brigades ; Law marched his men quickly, but did not arrive until noon.
Gen. Benjamin Grierson's cavalry division.
Custer fell into the orbit of Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton, who was commanding a cavalry division.
When the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac was reorganized under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan in 1864, Custer took part in the various actions of the cavalry in the Overland Campaign, including the Battle of the Wilderness ( after which he ascended to division command ), the Battle of Yellow Tavern, where J. E. B.
Beauregard did send a division ( Maj. Gen. Robert Hoke's ) to Lee for the Battle of Cold Harbor, but Lee urgently wanted more and took the step of offering Beauregard command of the right wing of the Army of Northern Virginia for his cooperation.
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.
During the Battle of Fredericksburg, Meade's division made the only breakthrough of the Confederate lines, spearheading through a gap in Lt. Gen. Thomas J.
He approved the plan of Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside to plant explosives in a mine shaft dug underneath the Confederate line east of Petersburg, but at the last minute he changed Burnside's plan to lead the attack with a well-trained African-American division that was highly drilled just for this action, instructing him to take a politically less risky course and substitute an untrained and poorly led white division.
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.
Gen. J. Johnston Pettigrew and Maj. Gen. Isaac R. Trimble ), and Pickett's fresh division from Longstreet's own corps.
The IX Corps fought in the Overland Campaign of May 1864 as an independent command, reporting initially to Grant ; his corps was not assigned to the Army of the Potomac because Burnside outranked its commander, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, who had been a division commander under Burnside at Fredericksburg.
He commanded a brigade and then division around Washington, D. C., as part of the effort to organize and train the new Army of the Potomac, under Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan.

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