1. Benjamin Bonneville (1796)

Union Army General

Explorer who blazed large portions of the Oregon Trail in the 1830's. He was also a fur trapper who served as a brevet Brigadier General in the American Civil War.

2. Kit Carson (1809)

Union Army General

Frontiersman who participated in the Mexican-American and Civil Wars and led conquests of several Native American tribes.

3. George Meade (1815)

Union Army General

Union general in the U.S. army who defeated General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Following his victory, he continued to command the Army of the...

4. Ambrose Burnside (1824)

Union Army General

Union Army soldier who fought in the Civil War and was defeated in the Battle of Fredericksburg.

5. Michael Corcoran (1827)

Union Army General

Irish war hero who was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and led the 69th New York Regiment to Washington D.C. as a colonel. He...

6. Jacob Dolson Cox (1828)

Union Army General

Remembered best for his service as United States Secretary of the Interior (from 1869 until 1870) and as twenty-eighth Governor of Ohio (from 1866 until 1868), this nineteenth-century politician was...

7. Marcus Reno (1834)

Union Army General

Union Army Brevet Brigadier General who is remembered for making controversial decisions leading to an infamous defeat for the United States military at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

8. Philip Sheridan (1831)

Union Army General

American Civil War Union general who led cavalry operations during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign.

9. Powell Clayton (1833)

Union Army General

Politician, military veteran and engineer who served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War and became the first Republican Governor of Arkansas. He was later...

10. Andrew L. Harris (1835)

Union Army General

Civil War Union Army general who was victorious during the Battle of Gettysburg. He helped lead progressive programs for the state of Ohio while Governor.

11. Strong Vincent (1837)

Union Army General

Lawyer who served as an officer in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. He died as a result of wounds sustained during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

12. Joseph Hooker (1814)

Union Army General

Joseph Hooker was a career United States Army officer achieving the rank of major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Although he served throughout the war...

13. John P. C. Shanks (1826)

Union Army General

John Peter Cleaver Shanks was a U. S. Representative from Indiana.

14. Alvan Cullem Gillem (1830)

Union Army General

Alvan Cullem Gillem was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Although Southern-born he remained loyal to the Federal government and fought in several battles in...

15. George D. Wagner (1829)

Union Army General

George Day Wagner was an Indiana politician farmer and soldier serving as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. His controversial actions at the Battle of...

16. Neal S. Dow (1804)

Union Army General

Neal S. Dow nicknamed the Napoleon of Temperance and the Father of Prohibition was mayor of Portland Maine. He sponsored the Maine law of 1851 which prohibited the manufacture and...

17. Samuel T. Busey (1835)

Union Army General

Samuel Thompson Busey was a U. S. Representative from Illinois.

18. DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn (1818)

Union Army General

DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn was a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army and a United States Representative from New York during the Civil War.

19. Cyrus Bussey (1833)

Union Army General

Cyrus Bussey was an American soldier and politician serving as a Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

20. Robert Alexander Cameron (1828)

Union Army General

Robert Alexander Cameron was an American soldier and newspaper publisher. He served as a Union general during the American Civil War. During the war he was made a brigadier general...

21. Moses B. Walker (1819)

Union Army General

Moses B. Walker was an American Union brevet brigadier general during the period of the American Civil War who served as associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1869...

22. George S. Evans (Unknow)

Union Army General

George Spafford Evans Texas Ranger miner businessman County Clerk for Tuolumne County Customs official and Senate Clerk for the State of California.

23. Amasa Cobb (1823)

Union Army General

Amasa Cobb was a Republican Wisconsin politician and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

24. George Francis McGinnis (1826)

Union Army General

George Francis McGinnins was a volunteer soldier during the Mexican-American War and a Union general during the American Civil War.

25. Hiram Burnham (Unknow)

Union Army General

Hiram Burnham was an officer in the Union Army who commanded a regiment and then a brigade in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. He was killed in...

26. Walter Q. Gresham (1832)

Union Army General

Quintin Gresham was an American statesman and jurist. He served as United States Postmaster General as a judge on the United States Courts of Appeals was a two-time candidate for...

27. Charles Hamlin (general) (1837)

Union Army General

Charles Hamlin was a Union Army major during the American Civil War who was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general United States Volunteers to rank from March 13...

28. Samuel Ryan Curtis (1805)

Union Army General

Samuel Ryan Curtis was an American military officer and one of the first Republicans elected to Congress. He was most famous for his role as a Union Army general in...

29. Hiram Gregory Berry (1824)

Union Army General

Hiram Gregory Berry was an American politician and general in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.

30. John P. S. Gobin (1837)

Union Army General

John Peter Shindel Gobin was an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1899 to 1903.

31. John P. Slough (1829)

Union Army General

John Potts Slough was an American politician lawyer Union general during the American Civil War and Chief Justice of New Mexico. He commanded the Union forces at the Battle of...

32. William Thomas Clark (1831)

Union Army General

Thomas Clark was an American soldier and politician serving as a general in the Union army during the American Civil War and as a postbellum U. S. Congressman.

33. Philip C. Hayes (1833)

Union Army General

Philip Cornelius Hayes was a U. S. Representative from Illinois as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

34. Fitz Henry Warren (1816)

Union Army General

z Henry Warren was a politician and a general during the American Civil War.

35. Robert Cowdin (1805)

Union Army General

Robert Cowdin was a businessman a field officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a local politician in Massachusetts. Cowdin was colonel of the 1st Massachusetts...

36. Americus V. Rice (1835)

Union Army General

Americus Vespucius Rice was a nineteenth-century politician banker and businessman from Ohio. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was promoted to brigadier general at...

37. David Moore (Military) (1817)

Union Army General

David Moore was an American military officer who served in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. He attained the rank of brevet Brigadier General United States Volunteers before...

38. Pleasant A. Hackleman (1814)

Union Army General

Pleasant Adam Hackleman was a lawyer politician and Union general who was killed during the American Civil War. Hackleman was born in Franklin County in 1814. He married Sarah Bradburn...

39. Nelson Taylor (1821)

Union Army General

Nelson Taylor was a U. S. Representative from New York and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

40. Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829)

Union Army General

Christopher Columbus Andrews was an American soldier diplomat newspaperman author and forester.

41. John McNeil (1813)

Union Army General

John McNeil was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was most noted for his role in the Palmyra Massacre and other acts of alleged...

42. John Milton Thayer (1820)

Union Army General

John Milton Thayer was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum United States Senator from Nebraska. Thayer served as Governor of Wyoming Territory...

43. Charles H. Grosvenor (1833)

Union Army General

Charles Henry Grosvenor was a multiple-term U. S. Representative from Ohio as well as a brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

44. Nathan Kimball (1822)

Union Army General

Nathan Kimball was a physician politician postmaster and military officer serving as a general in the Union army during the American Civil War. He was the first statewide commander of...

45. Wesley Merritt (1836)

Union Army General

sley Merritt was a general in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. He is noted for distinguished service in the cavalry.

46. David McMurtrie Gregg (1833)

Union Army General

David McMurtrie Gregg was a farmer diplomat and a Union cavalry general in the American Civil War.

47. William A. Pile (1829)

Union Army General

Anderson Pile was a nineteenth-century politician and minister from Missouri as well as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was Governor of New Mexico...

48. Abner C. Harding (1807)

Union Army General

Abner Clark Harding was a U. S. Representative from Illinois.

49. William H. Emory (1811)

Union Army General

Hemsley Emory was an United States Army officer and surveyor of Texas.

50. William Vandever (1817)

Union Army General

Vandever was a United States Representative from California and Iowa and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.