* General Correspondence: Earhart, Amelia, 1932 – 1934, The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress

At the close of the Civil War General Joseph Orville Shelby ’ s brigade never surrendered, but hoped to continue their fight across the border.

Among others, former Confederate General Joseph Orville Shelby testified on James ' behalf in the Missouri trial.

* January 3-Sir Orville Alton Turnquest becomes Governor General of the Bahamas.

General Ulysses S. Grant and Staff: Ely Samuel Parker ( left sitting ), Adam Badeau, General Grant ( at table ), Orville Elias Babcock, Horace Porter.

In April 1875, Pierrepont was appointed U. S. Attorney General by President Ulysses S. Grant, who having teamed up with Secretary of Treasury, Benjamin Bristow, vigorously prosecuted the notorious Whiskey Ring, a national tax evasion swindle that involved whiskey distillers, brokers, and government officials, including President Grant's private secretary, Orville E. Babcock.

In March 1876, a rumor spread throughout Washington D. C. that Attorney General Pierrepont had given information to aid the defense council of Orville Babcock in St. Louis.

In 1878, General Orville E. Babcock, the Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds in Washington, D. C. urged to have a public aquarium in D. C .. As a result, Spencer Baird's Fish Commission was given 20 acres of land.

The statues are of politicians and other people important to the state's history, such as the initiator of Connecticut, the Reverend Thomas Hooker ( c. 1586 – 1647 ), Governor John Winthrop, Jr. ( 1605 / 1606 – 1676 ), Roger Sherman ( 1721-1793 ), Revolutionary War Governor Jonathan Trumbull ( 1710-1785 ), Noah Webster ( 1758-1843 ), General Joseph Hawley ( 1826-1905 ), Civil War Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles ( 1802-1878 ), and United States Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt ( 1827 – 1905 ).

A number of well-known people have dedicated trees at the Arboretum, including explorers Richard E. Byrd and Lincoln Ellsworth ; sports figures Red Grange, Gene Tunney, Bobby Jones, and Jesse Owens ; Admiral William Halsey, Admiral Ernest King, and General John Pershing ; and others including Buckminster Fuller, John Glenn, Osa Johnson, Fritz Kreisler, Wiley Post, and Orville Wright.

Two days after McClellan's return to command, General Robert E. Lee's forces crossed the Potomac River into Maryland, leading to the Battle of Antietam in September 1862.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

* 1862 – American Civil War: Major General J. E. B.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.

* 1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.

But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.

The 1946 Constitution already cited the creation of just one Ministry, that resulted in the institution of the E. M. F. A, at the time called General staff.

* Walter E. Boomer ( born 1938 ), retired former four-star General and Assistant Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and business executive

At the 2005 General Assembly, over 3000 delegates voted nearly unanimously to elect the Sharon E. Watkins as General Minister and President of the denomination.

By November the Deputy General Minister and President, William Howland, suggested that the committee's staff consultant and chairperson agree on a specific proposal and bring it back to the committee: that meant Robert L. Friedly of the Office of Interpretation and Ronald E. Osborn.

* 1862 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside.

* Sir Frederick E. Morgan, Lieutenant General, British Army

* Kenneth E. Boulding, cofounder of the General Systems Theory, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal

On July 2, 2009, Mr. Yukiya Amano of Japan was elected as the Director General for the IAEA, defeating Abdul Samad Minty of South Africa and Luis E. Echávarri ‎ of Spain.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.

Although Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, Booth believed the war was not yet over because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's army was still fighting the Union Army.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

General Power would participate in the decision making.

Washington castigated his critic, General Conway, as being capable of `` all the meanness of intrigue to gratify the absurd resentment of disappointed vanity ''.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

This notion of the General Will gave rise to the Commune of Paris in the Revolution and later brought Napoleon to dictatorship.

Postmaster General Burleson set about to protect the American people against radical propaganda that might be spread through the mails.

Attorney General Palmer made a series of raids that sent more than 4,000 so-called radicals to the jails, in direct violation of their constitutional rights.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

The Gross group had been formed for the express purpose of advising the Secretary General.

Shortly the group would issue its report to the Secretary General, recommending Paul Bang-Jensen's dismissal from the United Nations.

Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.

You know Bang-Jensen was told the Committee was ' to convey its views, suggestions and recommendations to the Secretary General.

In his own words, Bang-Jensen ' took it for granted that the Group would report to the Secretary General privately and not in public.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

But General Grant may have been self-victimized.

Hearst had spent more than $60,000 of his own money in the probe, but still Attorney General Knox was quiescent.

`` The Attorney General has been brooding over that evidence like an old hen on a doorknob for eighteen months '', Hearst said.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

Thus Trevelyan repeats the story which pictured Victor Emmanuel as refusing to abandon the famous Statuto at the insistence of General Radetzky.

In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.

There, along the east bank of the Southern Bug, opposite the hamlet of Zhitzhakli a few miles north of the Black Sea, he arrived at General Headquarters of the Russian Army.

At General Headquarters the newcomer in turn got to know others.

and General the Count Pallavicini, founder of the Austrian branch of that celebrated Italian house, a courtier Littlepage could have met at Madrid in December, 1780.

Yet General Suvorov -- who had never forgotten hearing his adored Czarina declare that all truly great men had oddities -- was mad only north, northwest.

However, the General Court at Boston ordered the purchasers of Shawomet to appear before them to answer the sachems' claim.