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.

In late 1954, Gen. J. Lawton Collins was made ambassador to " Free Vietnam " ( the term South Vietnam came into use in 1955 ), effectively elevating the country to sovereign status.

* Warren J. Kemmerling as Gen. Goodhoe

Maj. Gen. Robert E. Lee, now commanding the armed forces of Virginia, ordered him to report to Colonel Thomas J. Jackson at Harper's Ferry.

* Fuller, Maj. Gen. J. F. C., Grant and Lee, A Study in Personality and Generalship, Indiana University Press, 1957, ISBN 0-253-13400-5.

* August 4 – Gen. John J. Pershing, in a nationwide radio broadcast, urges all-out aid to Britain in order to defend the Americas, while Charles Lindbergh speaks to an isolationist rally at Soldier Field in Chicago.

The victory, a product of Lee's audacity and Hooker's timid decision making, was tempered by heavy casualties and the mortal wounding of Lt. Gen. Thomas J.

While performing a personal reconnaissance in advance of his line, Jackson was wounded by fire from his own men, and Maj. Gen. J. E. B.

Gen. Henry J.

Burnside selected this plan because he was concerned that if he were to move directly south from Warrenton, he would be exposed to a flanking attack from Lt. Gen. Thomas J.

* Cavalry Corps, under Maj. Gen. J. E. B.

* Cavalry Corps, under Maj. Gen. J. E. B.

Lee's army in general suffered from weak performances by Longstreet's peers, including, uncharacteristically, Maj. Gen. Thomas J.

* Fuller, Maj. Gen. J. F. C. Grant and Lee, A Study in Personality and Generalship.

Concerned about Union supply lines, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman sent a force under the command of Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Smith to deal with Forrest.

During the first 42 years of tobacco litigation ( between 1954 and 1996 ) the industry maintained a clean record in litigation thanks to tactics described in a R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company internal memo as " the way we won these cases, to paraphrase Gen. Patton, is not by spending all of Reynolds ' money, but by making the other son of a bitch spend all of his.

Following a wide-ranging flanking march, Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J.

** First commander: Maj. Gen. Thomas J.

Beauregard continued commanding these troops as the new First Corps under Gen. J. E. Johnston as it was joined by the Army of the Shenandoah on July 20, 1861, when command was relinquished to General J. E. Johnston.

Gen. J. E. Johnston

The army was very briefly commanded by Maj. Gen. Gustavus Woodson Smith on May 31, 1862, following the wounding of Gen. J. E. Johnston, while President Jefferson Davis drafted orders to place Gen. Robert E. Lee in command the following day.

Gen. Lloyd Tilghman surrendered the 94 remaining officers and men of his approximately 3, 000-man force which had not been sent to Fort Donelson before U. S. Grant's force could even take up their positions.

Relief from Union regulars did not come until Gen. William S. Rosecrans replaced Buell and stopped the Confederates at Murfreesboro.

According to demographers Bill Strauss and Neil Howe, there are approximately 88. 5 million Gen Xers in the U. S. today.

Later, a battalion of U. S. Marines under the command of Gen. Logan Feland arrived to enforce the agreement.

After the Louisiana Purchase by the United States in 1803, this indefinite nature of the boundary between the U. S. and Spain led to an agreement on November 6, 1806, negotiated by Gen. James Wilkinson and Lt. Col. Simón de Herrera, to establish a neutral territory on both sides of the river.

The Chief of Staff Gen. Shaul Mofaz ( right foreground ) meets with U. S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( left ), and other senior U. S. Department of Defense officials in the Pentagon

* March 21 – Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the U. S. Selective Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of " America is the Black man's battleground!

Garfield later commanded the 20th Brigade of Ohio under Buell at the Battle of Shiloh, where he led troops in an attempt, delayed by weather, to reinforce Maj Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, after a surprise attack by Confederate General Albert S. Johnston.

While Patton had many detractors in the press, he also received praise from others, including a tribute from a UPI writer who wrote, " Gen. George S. Patton believed he was the greatest soldier who ever lived.

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sent two wooden gunboats ( timberclads ) down the Tennessee River for one last reconnaissance of the fort with Wallace aboard.

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to capture Fort Donelson.

Lincoln urged Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to advance against the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

He replaced Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell with Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, hoping for a more aggressive posture against the Confederates in Tennessee.

The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5 – 7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

On the morning of May 5, the Union V Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren attacked the Confederate Second Corps, commanded by Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, on the Orange Turnpike.

Gen. George W. Getty's division ( VI Corps ) and Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps on the Orange Plank Road.

* II Corps, under Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, including the divisions of Maj. Gen. David B. Birney and Brig.