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American Civil War in History (Part 3)

Historical Events


Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 201 - 300 of 872

  • 1816-05-16 Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1886)
  • 1816-05-24 Robert Seaman Granger, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Zanesville, Ohio (d. 1894)
  • 1816-06-11 Robert Huston Milroy, American Major General (Union Army), born in Salem, Indiana (d. 1890)
  • 1816-07-07 Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, American General (Union Army), born in Natick, Massachusetts on (d. 1889)
  • 1816-07-31 George Henry Thomas, American Major General (Union Army), born in Newsoms, Virginia (d. 1870)
  • 1816-08-03 John E. Smith, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Berne, Switzerland (d. 1897)
  • 1816-08-04 Israel Vogdes, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Chester County, Pennsylvania (d. 1889)
  • 1816-09-23 Julius White, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Cazenovia, New York (d. 1890)
  • 1816-10-04 Egbert Benson Brown, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Brownsville, New York (d. 1902)
  • 1816-10-15 Amiel Weeks Whipple, American Major General (Union Army), born in Greenwich, Massachusetts (d. 1863)
  • 1816-10-16 William Preston, American lawyer, politician and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1887)
  • 1816-11-03 Jubal Early, American General (Confederate Army), born in Franklin County, Virginia (d. 1894)
  • 1816-11-04 William Polk Hardeman, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Williamson County, Tennessee (d. 1898)
  • 1816-11-15 Joseph Bennett Plummer, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Barre, Massachusetts (d. 1862)
  • 1816-11-26 William H. T. Walker, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1864)
  • 1816-12-06 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Rutherford County, Tennessee (d. 1895)
  • 1816-12-18 Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1871)
  • 1816-12-27 Eliakim Parker Scammon, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Whitefield, Maine (d. 1894)
  • 1817-01-08 John Selden Roane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1867)
  • 1817-01-15 Lewis Golding Arnold, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey (d. 1871)
  • 1817-02-03 Samuel Ryan Curtis, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Champlain, New York (d. 1866)
  • 1817-02-08 Richard S. Ewell, US Army officer and Confederate General (Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Spotsylvania Court House), born in Georgetown, Washington D.C. (d. 1872)
  • 1817-02-18 Lewis Addison Armistead, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1863)
  • 1817-02-18 Walter Page Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1892)
  • 1817-02-28 James Craig, American lawyer, politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Washington County, Pennsylvania (d. 1888)
  • 1817-03-19 Lewis Henry Little, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
  • 1817-03-22 Braxton Bragg, American General (Confederate Army), born in Warrenton, North Carolina (d. 1876)
  • 1817-03-26 Herman Haupt, American civil engineer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1905)
  • 1817-04-04 John Wilson Sprague, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in White Creek, New York (d. 1893)
  • 1817-05-18 James William Denver, American lawyer, politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Winchester, Virginia (d. 1892)
  • 1817-06-17 Thomas Maley Harris, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Wood County, West Virginia (d. 1906)
  • 1817-06-21 James Brewerton Ricketts, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in New York City (d. 1887)
  • 1817-07-21 Joseph K Barnes, American Major General (Union Army), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1883)
  • 1817-07-29 James Blair Steedman, American Major General (Union Army), born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (d. 1883)
  • 1817-07-31 Philip Cook Jr, American Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, born in Twiggs County, Georgia (d. 1894)
  • 1817-09-09 Speed Smith Fry, American lawyer, judge, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Mercer County, Kentucky (d. 1892)
  • 1817-09-13 John M. Palmer, American politician (U.S. Senator from Illinois) and American Civil War General (Union), born in Eagle Creek, Kentucky (d. 1900)
  • 1817-09-21 Carter L. Stevenson, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia (d. 1888)
  • 1817-10-07 Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1880)
  • 1817-11-08 Claudius W. Sears, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Peru, Massachusetts (d. 1891)
  • 1817-11-09 Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, American Major General (Union Army), born in Piatt's Landing, Kentucky (d. 1873)
  • 1817-12-19 James Jay Archer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)
  • 1818-01-11 John Reese Kenly, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1891)
  • 1818-01-31 William Raine Peck, American planter, politician and solder (Confederate Army Louisiana Tigers), born in Jefferson County, Tennessee (d. 1871)
  • 1818-03-11 John Wilkins Whitfield, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Franklin, Tennessee (d. 1879)
  • 1818-03-13 Albion Parris Howe, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Standish, Maine (d. 1897)
  • 1818-03-23 Don Carlos Buell, American Major General (Union Army), born in Lowell, Ohio (d. 1898)
  • 1818-03-25 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, American Major General (Union Army), born in North Andover, Massachusetts (d. 1862)
  • 1818-03-28 Wade Hampton, American politician, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1902)
  • 1818-04-05 Lewis Baldwin Parsons, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Perry, New York (d. 1907)
  • 1818-04-22 Cadwallader Colden Washburn, American Major General (Union Army), born in Livermore, Maine (d. 1882)
  • 1818-06-21 Joseph Abel Haskin, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Troy, New York (d. 1874)
  • 1818-07-10 John Stuart Williams, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky (d. 1898)
  • 1818-07-14 Nathaniel Lyon, American Brigadier General (Union Army), 1st Union General to die in battle, born in Ashford, Connecticut (d. 1861)
  • 1818-08-04 Lovell Harrison Rosseau, American lawyer politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Stanford, Kentucky (d. 1869)
  • 1818-08-18 William Farquhar Barry, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in New York City (d. 1879)
  • 1818-08-23 Rufus Ingalls, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Denmark, Maine (d. 1893)
  • 1818-09-18 Marcellus Augustus Stovall, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Sparta, Georgia (d. 1895)
  • 1818-10-15 Irvin McDowell, American Major General (Union Army), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1885)
  • 1818-10-18 Edward Otho Cresap Ord, American engineer and Major General (Union Army), born in Cumberland, Maryland (d. 1883)
  • 1818-11-03 Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1891)
  • 1818-11-04 Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1896)

Benjamin Butler (1818-1893)

1818-11-05 American Major General (Union Army), Governor of Massachusetts (1883-84) and US presidential candidate (Greenback anti-monopoly ticket), born in Deerfield, New Hampshire

  • 1818-11-22 Samuel Gibbs French, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Mullica Hill, New Jersey (d. 1910)
  • 1818-12-04 William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Wilmington, North Carolina (d. 1886)
  • 1818-12-23 David Addison Weisiger, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1899)
  • 1818-12-30 James Cantey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1874)
  • 1819-01-01 George Foster Shepley, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Saco, Maine (d. 1878)
  • 1819-01-12 Zealous Bates Tower, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Cohasset, Massachusetts (d. 1900)
  • 1819-01-14 Frederick Steele, American Major General (Union Army), born in Delhi, New York (d. 1868)
  • 1819-02-01 Henry Lawrence Eustis, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1885)
  • 1819-02-14 James Green Martin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina (d. 1878)
  • 1819-03-19 David Henry Williams, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (d. 1891)
  • 1819-03-22 William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1888)
  • 1819-05-01 William Steele, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Albany, New York (d. 1885)
  • 1819-05-15 Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, American lawyer, politician, and Major General (Union Army), born in Russellville, Kentucky (d. 1893)
  • 1819-05-28 William Birney, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Huntsville, Alabama (d. 1907)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

1819-05-31 American poet (Leaves of Grass) and volunteer nurse during the Civil War, born in West Hills, New York

  • 1819-07-08 Alexander Hays, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Franklin, Pennsylvania (d. 1864)
  • 1819-08-06 Samuel Powhatan Carter, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Elizabethton, Tennessee (d. 1891)
  • 1819-08-12 Daniel Davidson Bidwell, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1864)
  • 1819-08-17 James Henry Van Alen, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Kinderhook, New York (d. 1886)
  • 1819-09-06 William Starke Rosecrans, American inventor, politician and US Army General (Union Army), born in Delaware County, Ohio (d. 1898)
  • 1819-09-09 Martin Luther Smith, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Danby, New York (d. 1866)
  • 1819-09-14 Henry Jackson Hunt, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1889)
  • 1819-10-02 George Washington Getty, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1901)
  • 1819-10-10 Zebulon York, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Avon, Maine (d. 1900)
  • 1819-10-19 Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Laurens County, South Carolina (d. 1897)
  • 1819-10-20 Daniel E. Sickles, American lawyer, politician (US Representative from New York, 1857-61 and 1893-95), diplomat, and Civil War Major General (Union Army), born in New York City (d. 1914) [1]
  • 1819-10-25 Zachariah C. Deas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Camden, South Carolina (d. 1882)
  • 1819-11-23 Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Belleville, Virginia (d. 1901)
  • 1819-12-16 Robert Selden Garnett, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1861)
  • 1819-12-17 Samuel Jones, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Powhatan County, Virginia (d. 1887)
  • 1819-12-19 James Clifford Veatch, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Elizabeth, Indiana (d. 1895)
  • 1819-12-30 John White Geary, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), lawyer, and politician (Governor of Pennsylvania, 1867-73; Mayor of San Francisco, 1850-51), born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania (d. 1873)
  • 1820-01-18 Abraham Buford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1884)
  • 1820-01-19 John Haskell King, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Sackets Harbor, New York (d. 1888)
  • 1820-01-24 John Milton Thayer, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bellingham, Massachusetts (d. 1906)

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)

1820-02-08 American Major General in the Union Army, born in Lancaster, Ohio

  • 1820-02-20 Mahlon Dickerson Manson, American druggist politician and General (Union Army), born in Piqua, Ohio (d. 1895)

Famous Weddings


Famous Deaths

Deaths 201 - 205 of 205

  • 1956-08-02 Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109
  • 1959-03-16 John B. Salling, reputed second to last Civil War veteran, dies at 111 [birth date, age and military service later disputed]
  • 1959-12-19 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
  • 1978-08-28 Bruce Catton, American historian and writer (Civil War), dies at 78
  • 1998-03-02 Henry Steele Commager, American historian (Atlas of Civil War), dies at 95