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.

Gen. Charles P. Stone, however this was denied.

Gen. Stone was blamed for the defeat by the Union press.

Gen. Stone had ordered two runaway slaves to be denied asylum in the Union Army, castigated Brig.

Gen. Stone in a Senate speech.

Gen. Stone defended himself in front of the Senate Committee under Radical chairman Sen. Wade.

Gen. Stone was arrested on February 8, 1862 and federally imprisoned for 189 days.

A cross was lit, and the oath was administered by Nathan Bedford Forrest II, the grandson of the original Imperial Grand Wizard, Gen. Nathan B. Forrest, and was witnessed by the owner of Stone Mountain, Samuel Venable.

Gen. Wingard Stone ( episodes 1 and 4 )

The army crossed Bull Run and the last troops across, Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel's I Corps, destroyed Stone Bridge behind them.

He funded it with $ 500 of his personal money, land donated by his father William Lytle, and $ 500 he solicited from a group of prominent first citizens of Cincinnati ( John H. Piatt, David E. Wade, Ethan Stone, William Corry, John H. Lytle, Gen. James Findlay, Andrew Mack, Jacob Burnet ).

Gen. Charles Pomeroy Stone to conduct what he called " a slight demonstration " in order to see how the Confederates might react.

Fighting with Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott's army in the Mexican-American War, Stone was promoted to second lieutenant on March 3, 1847.

On October 20, 1861, Stone was ordered by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan to conduct a reconnaissance across the Potomac River to report on Confederate activities in Leesburg, Virginia.

Under a cloud for suspected disloyalty and treason, Stone was arrested just after midnight on February 8, 1862, on orders of Maj. Gen. McClellan, who was acting under orders from Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, dated January 28.

When Maj. Gen Joseph Hooker took over command of the Army of the Potomac in early 1863, he asked for Stone as his chief of staff, but Stanton denied this request as well.

Without assignment until May, Stone was ordered to the Department of the Gulf, serving as a member of the surrender commission at Port Hudson and in the Red River Campaign as Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's chief of staff.

Kenney's deputy, Maj. Gen. St. Clair Streett, wrote in July 1946: " No major strategic threat or requirement now exists, in the opinion of our country ’ s best strategists nor will such a requirement exist for the next three to five years.

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.

He wrote a private letter to Secretary of War James Seddon, requesting that he be transferred to serve under his old friend Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.

He wrote a letter to Gen. Scott on April 27, four days after assuming command in Ohio, that was the first proposal for a unified strategy for the war.

Other historical figures and famous people who have lived in Esopus include naturalist John Burroughs, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, Major Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who founded the American Express Company and wrote “ Taps ” in 1862, and 1904 Democratic nominee for president Alton Brooks Parker, a lawyer and judge, who lost to incumbent Theodore Roosevelt.

Union Gen. S. A. Hurlburt wrote of these troops in a dispatch dated December 17, 1863: " The recent affair at Moscow, Tennessee, has demonstrated the fact that colored troops, properly trained and disciplined, can and will fight well.

They intended to present it to Gary Gygax at Gen Con in 1977, but changed their minds once at the Con, where they met Scott Bizar who wrote out a letter of intent.

In March 1941, Grunert wrote Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall requesting that a general officer be transferred to Manila to command the Department's air force.

" Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill wrote that " the whole of Georgia is full of bitter complaints of Wheeler's cavalry.

Gen. John E. Wool wrote about Thomas and another officer that " without our artillery we would not have maintained our position a single hour.

Holmes wrote to Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, and received permission to attack Helena.

He wrote a lengthy letter to Gen. Macomb summarizing some of his findings and requesting more time, specifically to survey the Columbia River and parts of the Southwest before his return.

Bragg wrote to President Davis, " Gen ' l Polk by education and habit is unfit for executing the plans of others.

He not only wrote the first 28 issues of Gen X, but he also at one point was writing both main X-Men titles for a lengthy run.

Afterwards Croghan wrote Johnson that he feared a similar " thrashing " for Gen. John Forbes advance forces nearing Fort Duquesne, unaware of Major James Grant's bloody defeat five days earlier.

Holmgren's grandfather, Jens Bugge, who served briefly as a commandant at West Point and wrote a book on military strategy, also had the distinction of being eulogized by Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

Gen. Edward Porter Alexander wrote after the war that, " Never, before or after, did the fates put such a prize within our reach.

Gen. John C. Caldwell wrote about Barlow in his official report:

Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain was the Union officer selected to lead the ceremony, and later he reflected on what he witnessed on April 12, 1865, and wrote a moving tribute:

He wrote to Gen. Hooker " I cannot ... remain silent as to the unsatisfactory condition in which I find this corps ... the responsibility of its present state ... does not belong to me.

Gen. Imboden, wrote that Jones

Both Lee and corps commander Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell wrote in admiration of his gallant attack, which drove Burnside's troops back over a half mile.

Gen. Daniel Butterfield, wrote: " I hardly know how to express my appreciation of the soldierly qualities, the gallantry, and energy displayed by my division commanders, Generals George Sykes, Humphreys, and Charles Griffin.

In 1980, Colonel Jerry Bullock, an ordained minister, wrote the official Security Forces prayer while serving with Brig Gen WIlliam R. Brooksher as the deputy commander of the Air Force Office of Security Police.