For any of you who are doing this weekend's homework (The Civil War reading--"The Clash of Amateur Armies" and "Real Warfare Begins") and are getting confused by the many generals and their military allegiance (especially the First Battle of Bull Run/First Manassas). Here is a quick list of the Generals for each side for this weekend's reading so you don't have to look up each one if you forget :
Union--
Robert Anderson
Winfield Scott
Irvin McDowell
George B McClellan
Ben Butler
William A Harney
John Charles Fremont
William T Sherman
James B McPherson
Nathaniel S Lyon
Robert Patterson
Allan Pinkerton
Ulysses S Grant
Jenry Wager Halleck
Don Carlos Buell
George H Thomas
Andrew Foote
Samuel Curtis
Confederate--
Jefferson Davis
PGT Beauregard
Robert E Lee
Albert Sidney Johnston
Joseph E Johnston
Thomas J Jackson (Stonewall Jackson)
Barnard Bee
Leonidas Polk
George B Crittenden
Earl Van Dorn
John Bankhead Magruder
*Note: A helpful resource for the First Battle of Bull Run is this animated map (used with the last 10 pages of the 3rd chapter)
Nice breakdown!
ReplyDeleteAudrey I found this so useful while I was reading the civil war book! I thought I could comment some of the naval generals not included in the list above found in our reading (specifically from "The Navies" chapter):
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Silas Stringham
Samuel F. Du Pont
Louis M. Goldsborough
Ambrose E. Burnside
David Glasgow Farragut
David Dixon Porter
AUDREY CHANG! Thank you so so so much for this! I just saw this, but I'm totally going to print it out and stick it in my book as a bookmark or something because it is super helpful!! As I was reading, especially in the beginning, i found myself getting confused, mixing up all of the names and people. Thank you thank you thank you!!
ReplyDeleteSide note, something I found confusing that may or may not be helpful to other people: a brigadier general is a higher ranking in the army but the lowest general ranking. It's between Colonel and Major General (Colonel is lower and Major General is higher).
http://www.military-ranks.org/army/brigadier-general
This is so helpful thank you so much! I really appreciate you doing thing because I was getting all the generals mixed up. So thanks and I will definitely refer to this as I continue reading the novel!
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